2024-01-16 10:28:02
The World Health Organization issued a serious warning about an unknown “disease X” that could cause 20 times more deaths than the Coronavirus pandemic.
The organization will try to raise awareness about the efforts needed to prepare health systems for the challenges that lie ahead.
They warn that this is not a new disease, but that they have used this term since 2018 to hypothetically refer to a still unknown pathogen that could cause an “international epidemic” in the future.”
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However, they ruled out that this is a new epidemic, but that the term is used as a metaphor to raise awareness about the need to address coordinated public health programs to reduce the risk of epidemics becoming pandemics.
“The hypothetical “Disease Newtral points out.
In this week’s presentation at the Davos Economic Forum, the WHO will also list eight public health priorities that will have to be addressed in the coming years: Covid-19, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Ebola and Marburg virus disease, Lassa fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS-CoV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Nipah and henipaviral diseases, Rift Valley fever and Zika.
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