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The annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, brought together leaders from around the world to discuss Disease X, a theoretical virus that could be 20 times deadlier than Covid-19.
Although there is currently no such virus, experts hope to develop a proactive action plan to combat such a virus and prepare the healthcare system for a possible pandemic, which experts fear could occur sooner than we think.
Dr. Amesh Adalya of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security emphasized: “There are strains of viruses that have very high mortality rates and could develop the ability to transmit efficiently from person to person.”
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
It was announced in Davos that Covid-19 may have been our first “Disease X” and that scientists and experts are actively learning from this experience.
Adalja hypothesized that a deadly pathogen like disease “It’s really about the human-animal interface, where the interactions take place and where these types of viruses take hold.”
If we are not prepared, a disease of this magnitude could have more devastating consequences than Covid-19, which has claimed more than 7 million lives, according to the WHO.
“If we did so poorly on something like Covid-19, you can imagine how poorly we would do on something like the 1918 Spanish flu,” Adalja said, referring to the 1918 flu pandemic that caused the According to data from the Cleveland Clinic, deaths have claimed around 50 million people worldwide.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus explained:
that WHO, together with other global organizations, has already developed initiatives to prepare for the next major pandemic or epidemic.
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