What is Disease X virus, touted by medical experts as cause for next global pandemic
According to the World Health Organization, “Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease.”
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Kate Bingham, who was the head of the UK's vaccine taskforce from May to December 2020, told the Daily Mail that Disease X has the potential to kill million more people than the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Reuters/Representational