Larry Brilliant: TED Prize wish: Help stop the next pandemic

THE BIRTH OF BIO-SURVEILLANCE FOR THE CONTAINMENT OF DISEASES
Dr. Brilliant discusses his years of experience eliminating pandemics. His TED.com wish was to create a global system for Early Detection, Early Response. The speed at which this new swine flu epidemic is being contained is based real-time reporting. This is part of my series on how bio-surveillance works.