2023-09-27 06:37:20
New York: The World Health Organization has warned of a pandemic 20 times deadlier than Covid. The World Health Organization has warned that the world should prepare to face a new epidemic known as ‘Disease X’. Disease X has also been included in the list of priority diseases on the website. The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says that this unknown disease will have a greater impact than Covid.
Covid 19 started in 2019. According to the World Health Organization, it has claimed the lives of nearly seven million people globally. It is estimated that the next pandemic might kill at least 50 million people. Kate Bingham, chair of the UK’s vaccine taskforce, says the new virus might have a similar catastrophe to the Spanish flu that wreaked havoc in 1918-1920. At least 50 million people died in the plague that day. This was twice the number killed in the First World War. Kate Bingham told the Daily Mail that a similar death toll might be expected in this pandemic. It is not possible to say for sure whether the new disease is a virus, bacteria or fungus. He told the Daily Mail that if these spread, the world will have to prepare for mass vaccination drives.
Scientists are monitoring 25 virus families that contain thousands of individual viruses. Any of these can cause an epidemic. Meanwhile, there are reports that scientists in the UK have begun efforts to develop a vaccine to combat the unrecognized disease X. More than 200 scientists are participating in this research. Professor Dame Jenny Harris, head of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), says factors such as climate change and population change are increasing the risk of future pandemics.
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