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During the past three decades, researchers have spent billions of dollars trying to detect and predict the seemingly random emergence of dozens of infectious pandemics. The cost to businesses caused by SARS alone is estimated to be between $50 billion and $100 billion. Now, a team of British and U.S. scientists say they can predict for the first time where the next major pandemic disease like HIV/AIDS or SARS could occur.