The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting our daily lives for nearly a year now, especially ours in the United States. With vaccine distribution underway and Biden’s government stepping up preventive measures to get the pandemic under control, the news that another global health crisis could be looming, is not what many of us want to hear now.

Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, has suggested that another pandemic could be on the horizon, caused by an unknown ‘Disease X’. He admitted that in 2017 he and some colleagues asked the World Health Organization to add something called Disease X to the list of priority diseases.


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He added that the impending pandemic should be on everyone’s radar. “You could use the phrase ‘it’s when, not if’,” he stated of its potential.

“We thought the next emerging pandemic could be a virus we don’t even know about – frankly, we thought it was the most likely scenario,” he said. In a meeting the following year, experts examined what the disease might be and came up with a possibility of a new coronavirus related to Mers or Sers.

“I’m not sure there is much thought about the next threat as the world is fully focused on dealing with the threat it poses. I absolutely agree that more thought needs to be done,” he said. To cancel. “Unfortunately I like to say it: we did a lot of work, we did our overhaul, we entered the exam room and they gave us the wrong paper.”


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“We thought the next emerging pandemic could be a virus we don’t even know about,” he said. Frankly, we thought this was the most likely scenario. It picks up those who are actually going to cause the next pandemic from this constant stream of new viruses coming along. Every once in a while, one comes along, so spotting the rare event. is always difficult. “

It looks like there may not be a “post-pandemic” in the near future after all.

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