- By Priyanka Munshi
- Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:29 AM (IST)
- Source:JND
Just as everything was starting to fall into place, COVID-19 has released yet another new variation. At the recent International Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, a large number of international leaders stated that the deadly disease X, which is 20 times deadlier than COVID-19, could wreak havoc. The topic of the conversation, which included Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), and a few other leaders and experts, was "Preparing for Disease X." The primary goal of the meeting is also to increase the focus on developing platform technologies, such as medication therapies and vaccines, in order to prepare for the challenging circumstances that lie ahead.
What Is Disease X? Know In Detail About This 20-Times More Fatal Than COVID-19 Disease (Image Credit: Canva)
In 2014–2016, after the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the preparation for this deadly disease X began.Then, after all of that happened, the members of the World Health Organization created a list of diseases like Ebola virus disease,Zika, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), SARS, Nipah and henipaviral diseases, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, COVID-19, Rift Valley fever, Marburg virus disease, Lassa fever, and the last one, Disease X.
Following that, the objective is to do in-depth research and development (R&D) on ways to prevent the kind of delays that were seen during the Ebola outbreak. Until recently, insufficient prompt intervention had resulted in the deaths of about 11,000 individuals. Finally, under a $3.5 billion plan, all of the researchers at the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) are working around the clock on a rapid-response vaccination platform to develop new vaccines within a hundred days of potential pandemic identification.
What Is Disease X? Know In Detail About This 20-Times More Fatal Than COVID-19 Disease (Image Credit: Canva)
About Disease X?
With so many negative recollections, the COVID-19 pandemic will take a while to fade from memory. There will be accusations of being tardy and misinformed in reaction as the entire healthcare and economic systems revert to their new normal. Leaders in politics and those responsible for making the catastrophe worse will get away with it while blaming others.
Every year, the World Health Organization (WHO) updates its list of the infectious illnesses that pose the greatest threat, which includes COVID-19. This serves as a warning to finance research, treatment, and surveillance for possible pandemic agents. Since 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) has designated a disease as "Disease X" if it has the potential to spread globally because of an unidentified infection. The next unidentified and unknown entity that might already be present is COVID-19 as it exists now, according to NIH.