Disease X: Scientists warn next pandemic could be triggered by virus of ‘deadly infectious illness'
- 57% of senior disease experts predict a strain of influenza virus as the most likely cause of the next global outbreak of deadly infectious illness in an upcoming international survey.
- In the same survey, 21% of experts believe an unknown virus, Disease X, could be the next common cause of a pandemic after influenza.
- Despite this, 15% of scientists in the study still view Sars-CoV-2 as a potential threat for causing a pandemic in the near future.
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In research with experts from different countries, 57 percent said that influenza, the cause of the flu, has the greatest pandemic potential. Scientists believe that the next pandemic will be caused by some variant of a well-known virus: influenza, the cause of the flu. The warning occurs in the midst of the advance of avian influenza strains, which circulated only in birds, but have spread among mammals for years in the United States. In sporad…
A new study involves a survey of leading infectious disease researchers, and more than half believe that the next pandemic will be caused by a strain of the flu virus.
Influenza remains the biggest threat to that global health, and the WHO fears the spread of the bird strain. Scientists also point out that influenza is the most likely culprit for new pandemics in the future.
The flu is once again a threat, and scientists are warning of what they're now calling Malaria X. The Guardian put it this way. According to important researchers,
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