There are frequent outbreaks of deadly diseases such as Ebola and Wuhan coronavirus.

In September 2014, when a Liberian man named Thomas Duncan first appeared with fever and abdominal pain at a hospital in Dallas, he was sent home with some antibiotics. Days later, Ebola-infected Duncan. Outbreaks of dangerous conditions such as Ebola or the new respiratory coronavirus in Wuhan, China, now appearing in other countries such as the US, are a feature of modern life and not a bug. And it is only a matter of time before a patient a....