Jakarta –
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently warned countries around the world of the potential emergence of pathogens that could cause new pandemics in the future, following COVID-19. WHO then urged countries to prepare.
“The next pandemic will not wait for us. We must be ready,” stressed WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus quoted from Business Standard, Friday (26/5/2023).
Referring to WHO, there are a number of priority diseases that have the potential to pose a risk to public health and become epidemics. These include COVID-19, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease and Marburg disease, Lassa fever, MERS-CoV and SARS, Nipah disease and henipavirus, Rift Valley fever, Zika and ‘Disease X’.
Disease X is defined as a disease that is not currently known, and has the potential to cause disease in humans. This list was first published in 2017 and has been in priority order since 2018.
Even though the fury of the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided, the horrors of medical emergencies are still fresh in our minds. Departing from these conditions, WHO warned the world about the risk of the virus killing thousands of people and infecting millions of people.
As hospitals and medical staff around the world struggle to cope with the situation, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of both private and public health systems.
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2023-05-26 01:05:35
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