Health leaders say a “Disease X” pandemic is a matter of when. The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a frightening warning to the world about the possibility of another, even worse, pandemic in the wake of the coronavirus.
Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said concluding the treaty was a “critical mission for humanity”. “Today, I stand before you in the aftermath of COVID-19, where millions of people have died and the social, economic and political shock continues.” he stated.
“While some progress has been made, such as improving surveillance, pandemic funds, and building vaccine production capacity…the world is not ready for a pandemic. The painful lessons we have learned are at risk of being forgotten. The crisis facing our world.”
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Public health officials warned that if the international community did not learn these lessons, “we will pay a high price next time, and there will be another.” “History teaches us that it’s not a matter of if the next pandemic will occur, but when,” he warned this weekend.
“It could be caused by an influenza virus, a new coronavirus, or a new pathogen that we don’t know about yet, which we call Disease X.” He added, “As it stands, the world is We are still unprepared for the next disease X and the next pandemic.”
“In 2018, at the same time I was speaking here at this World Government Summit, we first used the term Disease he said. .
“COVID-19 was disease X, a new pathogen causing a new disease. But there will be another disease X, or disease Y, or disease Z.”