‘Disease X’(Deadlier Than Ebola and Covid-19) will Become The Next Pandemic

 

‘Disease X’(Deadlier Than Ebola and Covid-19) will Become The Next Pandemic 

We are now in a world where new pathogens will come out.The scientists who helped discover the Ebola virus in 1976 has warned against an unknown and potentially fatal virus called 'Disease X’.Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, the scientist who discovered ‘Ebola’ warned that a deadly viruses will hit mankind as he fears Disease X which could be as fast-spreading as the COVID-19, and as deadly as the Ebola virus.The letter ‘X’ means unexpected,explained Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.'Disease X' is hypothetical for now, an outbreak that scientists and doctors fear could lead to serious disease around the world.

Muyembe's statement comes on the heels of a patient being infected by a pathogen that has not yet been identified but had symptoms similar to Ebola.In a remote village in the Congo,Last month a woman showed early signs of hemorrhagic fever. Her samples were tested for Ebola and other diseases with similar symptoms. All came back negative making the disease which affected the woman a mystery. Scientists speculated if she could be the patient zero of ‘Disease X’ the first known infection of a new pathogen that, researchers say could be more contagious than the Covid-19 and with Ebola's 50 percent to 90 percent fatality rate.This is very dangerous for human being.The World Health Organisation (WHO) published their global plan for accelerating research and development during health emergencies and also included "Disease X" in its '2018 R&D Blueprint'. The 2018 R&D Blueprint prioritized 9 diseases for R&D which consists of Covid-19, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease, Lassa fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Nipah and henipaviral disease, Rift Valley fever, Zika and the latest addition “Disease X”. All these diseases lack an effective drug or vaccine.