The topic was discussed at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Yesterday Wednesday, the director general of the WHO issued a warning
The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, took to social media yesterday Wednesday to issue a warning.
Days after stating that the world is not prepared for the next pandemic, the official warned that the time to start this preparation “is now”.
“The time to prepare for the next pandemic is now, not when it arrives,” wrote Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
It should be noted that the alert comes after, in recent days, ‘Disease X’, which could be the future pandemic, entered the center of the discussion.
The WHO has even warned that this “could cause 20 times more deaths than the coronavirus pandemic”.
The hypothetical ‘Disease from SARS-CoV-2, the influenza virus, or a new virus of animal origin.
That same year, it was included in the WHO list of priority diseases. In addition to ‘Disease
In November 2022, the WHO created a group of more than 300 scientists to identify pathogens that could cause future pandemics, with a focus on ‘Disease X’.