Every five years in the future, a zoonotic virus may cause “disease X” and lead to a global pandemic.
Every year since 2015, the World health Organization (WHO) has published a list of diseases that could strike the world in the coming months or even years. These diseases may emerge every five years as a zoonotic virus that causes “Disease X” (Disease X), setting off a global pandemic, with Wuhan pneumonia (COVID19) virus being one of them.
The British media Gentside reported, “Have you heard of Disease X? We don’t know what it’s called or when it will appear, but the WHO believes it will be the next threat to human health. While the world is still in the midst of a severe test, researchers are increasingly concerned that the next pandemic may be just around the corner.
“Disease X” is a medical term coined by WHO scientists three years ago because they believe the world will inevitably experience an outbreak of some unknown disease. But how will it manifest itself? Experts in deadly diseases know nothing about “disease X” except that it will one day spread around the world,” said Maria Van Kolkhove, an epidemiologist with the WHO’s Emergency Health Program. Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist with the WHO Emergency Health Program, said in June 2020, “The question now is not what is the next pathogen, but when will it break out?”
Ebola, Zika and COVID19 are all in some way “disease X,” a disease that we don’t know is about to break out.
The World Economic Forum in December 2020 emphasized that COVID19 (Wuhan pneumonia) is not the last outbreak of a public health crisis facing humanity. Instead, humanity will likely experience a pandemic or public health crisis at least once every five years. Humans may not be able to completely avoid this risk, but they can reduce the negative impact.
It is thought that the next “disease X” will be a zoonotic disease, a disease transmitted from animals to humans, similar to coronavirus, thought to be transmitted from animals such as bats to humans. The future nightmare for humans is that it could be one of many viruses or strains that could also be highly contagious and highly lethal, causing “Disease X” to be comparable to the black plague that killed 75 million people in the Middle Ages.
A recent study published in the journal Nature Communications also identified Southeast Asia, South Africa, Central Africa, Central America and the Amazon as the countries with the highest rates of disease transmission. countries in the Amazon region as being at the highest risk. This risk is becoming more acute as people continue to move into the animals’ habitats.
Dr. Josef Seitler, of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Germany, said that the risk has increased as people continue to move into animal habitats. Dr. Josef Settele told The Sun that rampant deforestation, uncontrolled intensive agriculture, mining, infrastructure development and the indiscriminate harvesting of wildlife will create a crisis of mass transmission of viruses from wildlife to humans.
In India, farmers clearing forests for agriculture are now at risk of contracting the Kyasanur forest virus, also known as Monkey Fever. Since 2012, the mortality rate of infection with this disease is 10 percent. In addition, Lujo Fever (Lujo Fever) emerged in South Africa in 2008, and although the disease has infected only five patients to date, the mortality rate is as high as 80 percent.
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