Shillong, Oct 1: Dame Kate Bingham, who chaired the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce said that the next pandemic could take 50 million lives. He said that it might already be on its way and that Covid-19 was not that lethal. The new pandemic has been termed as “Disease X” by World Health Organisation (WHO) and it can be 20 times deadlier than Coronavirus.
WHO has categorised the unknown disease ‘Disease X’ among Covid-19, Ebola, Lassa fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), Nipah and Zika.
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What is Disease X?
On WHO website, the term “Disease X” “represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease”.
It could be a new agent (virus, bacteria, fungus, etc) without any treatments.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has defined Disease X as an outbreak that might be caused by a pathogen not yet identified as a human disease agent.
It was since 2018, when WHO formally started using the term which represents the next unknown disease that could have the potential of pandemic.
UK health experts are warning that Disease X can cause another pandemic like COVID-19, and millions of people may die of it.
As per a British health specialist, Disease X has the potential to trigger a deadlier pandemic than COVID-19, possibly resulting in a death toll of at least 50 million.
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