exponential growth

Just bought into bta the other day so here hoping timing is correct- will hold for a while!
My contibution is about exponential growth of bacteria and viruses.
As most of you know when a virus pandemic occurs its because the virus spreads because it has this ability to reproduce and spread fast. Very fast!

Now if the first case of this occured only as recently as 5-6 weeks ago and its already killed 150 in a Mexico than it really is very early days. BUT these deaths also appear to be exponential ???
And unfortunately the virus now is spreading exponentially around the world. BAD signs!

Very early days in this event but expect to hear much more bad news on this front. Of course the virus will probably become extinct by six months but its deadly path will have will probably reached most corners of the earth by then.Its in about possibly 10 or more countries as of now.

What protection do we have
Isolation, covering up all work relatively well but at least today the WORLD also has Glaxo, Biota and a few other companies all doing their bit to stave off the enemy.
What was it that Glaxo and BTA had in common?