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The mysterious 'Disease X' made it onto the agenda of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus joining other health officials to discuss it, reported Bloomberg...
Experts believe that the mysterious Disease X could cause 20 times more deaths than a coronavirus pandemic...
The World Health Organization added Disease X in 2017 to a short list of pathogens deemed a top priority for research, alongside known killers like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Ebola...
In a book, the former Chair of the UK Vaccine Taskforce, Kate Bingham, issued a stark warning about the potential for the next pandemic to emerge from a vast pool of unknown viruses, potentially claiming as many lives as the Spanish Flu, which killed an estimated 50 million people...
Recalling the devastating impact of the 1918-19 flu pandemic, Bingham and Hames note, "The 1918-19 flu pandemic killed at least 50 million people worldwide, twice as many as were killed in World War I.".
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