British scientists have begun developing vaccines to prevent a new pandemic emerging from an unknown disease called “Disease X”. More than 200 scientists work at Porton Down Government Laboratories in the United Kingdom.
According to the site “Sky NewsA list of high-risk animal viruses has been discovered, which in turn is affecting faster disease outbreaks around the world.
For her part, Professor and Head of the Health Security Agency in the United Kingdom, Jenny Harries, says, “What we are trying to do is to ensure readiness and rectify the matter in the event of an unknown disease, but in the event that the new epidemic is not controlled, we will continue to work to develop the correct vaccines and treatments to avoid the epidemic.”
The center is working on developing and evaluating a vaccine against the new epidemic, as well as monitoring several causes of high-risk diseases such as avian influenza, monkeypox and hantavirus.
The first successful vaccine against Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, a tick-borne disease, had a fatality rate of 30 percent. Clinical experiments began on 24 volunteers to carry out the tests, but the disease quickly spread in Europe due to the increasing heat of the weather and the return of expatriates to the United Kingdom carrying infectious diseases.
Harris confirmed that climate change and population density are two possible causes for the existence of another epidemic, adding: “What we see today is the exacerbation of risks globally, and the main reason is the transmission of the disease from animals to humans, as climate change contributed to the movement of mosquitoes from cold places to hot places.
It turns out that bird flu is one of the most infectious diseases, with the Royal Society of Birds confirming that 30,000 seabirds in the UK died this summer, and a strain of H5N1 has spread around the world.
2023-08-09 06:47:00
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