Disease X Pandemic

Before the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had made a list of priority infectious diseases. These were felt to pose a threat to international public health.

57 per cent of leading disease specialists predict that a strain of the flu virus will be the source of the next major infectious disease outbreak that strikes the world.

WHO's Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus urged countries worldwide to come together and sign a 'pandemic treaty' to tackle the deadly Disease X.

It sounds like something Elon Musk might have cooked up: "Disease X." In fact, the term was coined years ago as a way of getting scientists to work on medical countermeasures for unknown infectious threats.

A UK health expert's warning that a new pathogen could cause a pandemic as deadly as the Spanish Flu has sent alarm bells ringing in a world that is yet to completely emerge from what it hoped was a once-in-a-lifetime event -- Covid-19

"Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease," mentions WHO.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has created a list of priority diseases that can cause the next global pandemic.

Kate Bingham further said that scientists have identified 25 virus families, but there could be more than one million undiscovered variants.

In the study, Shi Zhengli and colleagues from the Wuhan Institute of Virology evaluated the human spillover risk of 40 coronavirus species.

'Disease X' is on the 'priority disease' of WHO. The short list has the names of the disease that could cause the next deadly pandemic.

Before the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had made a list of priority infectious diseases. These were felt to pose a threat to international public health.

57 per cent of leading disease specialists predict that a strain of the flu virus will be the source of the next major infectious disease outbreak that strikes the world.

WHO's Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus urged countries worldwide to come together and sign a 'pandemic treaty' to tackle the deadly Disease X.

It sounds like something Elon Musk might have cooked up: "Disease X." In fact, the term was coined years ago as a way of getting scientists to work on medical countermeasures for unknown infectious threats.

A UK health expert's warning that a new pathogen could cause a pandemic as deadly as the Spanish Flu has sent alarm bells ringing in a world that is yet to completely emerge from what it hoped was a once-in-a-lifetime event -- Covid-19

"Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease," mentions WHO.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has created a list of priority diseases that can cause the next global pandemic.

Kate Bingham further said that scientists have identified 25 virus families, but there could be more than one million undiscovered variants.

In the study, Shi Zhengli and colleagues from the Wuhan Institute of Virology evaluated the human spillover risk of 40 coronavirus species.

'Disease X' is on the 'priority disease' of WHO. The short list has the names of the disease that could cause the next deadly pandemic.