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Disease X

ByULF TEAM

Jan 25, 2024 #Health
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Recently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) emphasised the urgent need for global preparedness against a potential new pandemic, referred to as ‘Disease X’.

About Disease X:

  • It is referred to as a hypothetical pathogen or threat that can cause a major pandemic in future.
  • It could be a new agent, a virus, a bacterium, or a fungus without any known treatment.
  • The term coined by scientists and the World Health Organization could be any of the 25 families of viruses that have the capability to cause illness in people.
  • Disease X was included in the WHO’s updated Blueprint list of diseases back in 2018.
  • Scientists are of the opinion that Disease X could be 20 times more deadly than SARS-Covid virus that caused pandemic recently.
  • It represents an illness which is currently unknown but could pose a serious microbial threat to humans in the future.

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