have contracted the virus and an estimated 1800000 lives have been lost globally microbiologist simon cluck says this year's outbreak could have been much worse. this this virus although it's very infectious it is not desperately lethal its mortality rate is not all that high but it causes so many deaths by dint of the fact that it infects lots of people 'd and we've just seen how it can be evolved in to making. making a new strain that is even more in taxes and we are more connected globalise you put it when we were 20 or 30 years ago and i don't see that changing anytime soon we will eventually get back to where we were say this time last year and we will continue to become more global i think that's human nature and of course the more easily people can travel around the world more easily viruses can as well but more fertility there is going. to infect new people the more tuna to go before to me tell you so the possibilities is there that there will be outbreaks in the future that will cause problems and they may be bigger than this one. poll in china has highlighted the shifting percepti