bbn/illustration/What is Disease X which has the potential to become a pandemic, more deadly than Covid-19.
A new disease pandemic is predicted to hit again by health experts. This new disease, known as disease X, is said to be more deadly than Covid-19.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has also warned that this disease could strike at any time. Therefore, the world needs to create further vaccines.
The disease could be caused by millions of yet to be discovered viruses and could be 20 times more deadly than the coronavirus, which has caused 2.5 million deaths.
WHO is not without reason recommending a vaccine for disease X. It is estimated that the next pandemic could reach the same scale as the Spanish flu.
The report adds that the fallout will likely be far greater than the fallout from Covid, which the world was ill-prepared to deal with when the disease struck in early 2020.
Kate Bingham, who chaired the UK Vaccine Task Force between May and December 2020, said the number of viruses replicating and mutating was much greater. According to him, there are some that might pose a deadly threat to humanity.
“Let me put it this way, the flu pandemic of 1918-1919 killed at least 50 million people worldwide, twice the death toll in World War I. Today, we can estimate a similar number of deaths caused by one of the many virus that already exists,” he told the Mirror, Sunday (24/9).
“Scientists currently know of the existence of 25 virus families, each containing up to thousands of individual viruses that all have the potential to develop into pandemics.”
2023-09-29 00:20:15
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