WHO Director-General cautions that Disease X may be caused by an influenza virus or a new coronavirus
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of WHO, is alerting about a potential new threat dubbed “Disease X” that could spread rapidly across the globe. He emphasizes that we haven’t fully grasped the valuable lessons from previous pandemics. And as a result, civilization will “pay dearly”, he added.
🚩 WHO Director-General Tedros Says Disease X ‘Is a Matter of When, Not If’
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“It may be caused by an influenza virus or a new coronavirus. Or it may be caused by a new pathogen we don’t even know about yet, what we call Disease X.” pic.twitter.com/IJCdvwe33j
Ghebreyesus addressed attendees at the World Government Summit in Dubai, where he described humanity as “unprepared” for Disease X, and the next pandemic. “If it struck tomorrow, we would face many of the same problems we faced with COVID-19.”
“The painful lessons we learned are in danger of being forgotten as attention turns to the many other crises confronting our world. But if we fail to learn those lessons, we will pay dearly next time,” he stated.
The haunting question of how far away the next global pandemic is was answered by Ghebreyesus: “History teaches us that the next pandemic is a matter of when not if.”
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