What will be the cause of the next declared WHO "global health emergency"?
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A new variant of Covid
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An Ebola outbreak
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Killer robots
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Influenza
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Polio
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Pokérus
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Zika, again
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A severe form of malaria
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Chikungunya

The World Health Organization will declare a 'public health emergency of international concern' in cases where risk of international spread of disease is particularly high. The last four emergencies were caused by the Zika virus (2016), Kivu Ebola (2020), COVID-19 (2020), and Monkeypox (2022). What will cause the next one?

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@Duncan In much the same way as WHO not declaring that gain of function research is a public health emergency.
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I'm still deciding whether AI should be listed separate from those two. I suppose AI is not a proximate cause in the same way 'bots are.
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@MartinRandall I think that I will consider nanobots and robots to be different for the purposes of this market.