What is ‘disease’ X and why is it not a risk?

‘Disease It is not a real pathology nor is there an immediate danger of causing a new pandemic, as of this term It only applies to hypothetical viruses or bacteria that are still unknown. which could cause a future epidemiological threat, despite what messages on social networks claim.

In recent days, numerous messages have been circulating on social networks claiming that the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against the appearance of a new disease – ‘disease– whose mortality would be up to 20 times higher than covid-19.

The proliferation of these publications came about as a result forum in Davos – which holds its annual meeting between January 15 and 19 – has announced a conference for Wednesday on this alleged ‘disease

In this sense, several profiles interpreted that this panel is an announcement for the start of a new global pandemicas “global elites”.

“A warning about a disease 20 times more deadly than Covid-19 should warn of what the globalists are cooking at the WEF (World Economic Forum in English),” warned a message widely shared on Xu (formerly Twitter).

FACTS: It is true that ‘disease a hypothetical pathogen that could cause a serious international epidemic but does not refer to an actual disease and that there is, as explained by the WHO, which included this concept in the list of priority pathogens in order to prepare for possible future threats.

In 2017, the WHO introduced the term ‘currently unknown disease’.

In any case, the organization states on its website that this list is “not exhaustive” nor does it indicate “the most likely causes of the next pandemic”, but rather focuses on diseases that that there are not enough vaccines or medicines.

WHO explained in a message on social networks that “there is no such thing as disease X” and that it is a concept of preventing pharmacovigilance and health systems from an unknown pathogen.

Likewise, he explained that the goal was to prepare in terms of research to achieve drugs and vaccines that could respond to this threat.

For his part, Federico Arribas, a member of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology, emphasizes this This term does not represent any real threat, but simply refers to a hypothetical new disease to which the population would not have any kind of immunity, which would probably cause high transmission and mortality.

In this sense, Arribas explains that these forecasts serve to establish possible preventive and containment measures, as well as to implement new technologies, which at the time helped accelerate the development of a vaccine against covid-19.

“Laboratories were already working on jobs that somehow helped us have a vaccine at that time,” he adds.

In short, “disease concept so that pharmacovigilance systems and health to prepare for future epidemiological threats.