Bill Gates: 'The next epidemic could be worse'

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced it will be funding a $75m disease surveillance network in Africa and Asia.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the two goals of the project, set up in the wake of the Ebola crisis, were to reduce child mortality, and prepare for the next epidemic.

He said lessons that could be learnt from the latest Ebola crisis.

"Next time the epidemic has a chance of being far worse than this one," he said.

Mr Gates said the the World Health Organisation wasn't financed "to have a standby corps that flies in and tries to solve epidemics".