While the world is winding down from the COVID-19 pandemic the World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned with the disease “X” pandemic a more deadly wave than COVID-19.
“Disease X is coming, and with it the next global pandemic, scientists warn.”
https://nationalpost.com/health/disease-x-global-pandemic-covid-19-virus-outbreak
https://nypost.com/2023/05/24/what-is-disease-x-covid-experts-warn-it-could-cause-deadlier-pandemic/
EcoHealth Alliance.
Author: Robert Kessler.
EcoHealth Alliance scientists are sampling humans and wildlife around the globe to track and discover new viruses
And this is where our research begins.
EcoHealth Alliance is committed to the Global Virome Project, a visionary undertaking which seeks to find and study the vast majority of the world’s 1.67 million unknown viruses. The hope is that we can learn everything to know about Disease X before it strikes. According to a paper published in Science by many of the Global Virome Project’s architects–including EcoHealth Alliance President Dr. Peter Daszak–in just 10 years we could discover 71 percent of those undiscovered viruses. The estimated cost for this is just $1.2 billion dollars. When compared to the $30-$50 billion price tag of the 2002-2003 SARS pandemic (itself an undiscovered virus at the time of its outbreak), it seems almost like a no brainer.
It’s our mission to put a name to Disease X, to help the world prepare, and to prevent it from emerging in humans. Today it’s probably in a forest somewhere miles from the nearest city, but that can change quickly. It’s estimated that a respiratory virus similar to the flu could reach all major global capitals within 60 days. It’s our expertise and multidisciplinary approach that stands between you and the next pandemic.
National Institute of Health.
“Disease X: A hidden but inevitable creeping danger.” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34308811/
Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesAnthony Fauci stated that the concept of Disease X would encourage WHO projects to focus their research efforts on entire classes of viruses (e.g., flaviviruses), instead of just individual strains (e.g., zika virus), thus improving WHO capability to respond to unforeseen strains.[7] In 2020, experts, including some of the WHO’s own expert advisors, speculated that COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus strain, met the requirements to be the first Disease
Disease X.
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