The COVID-19 pandemic has been affecting our daily lives for almost a year now, especially that of us in the United States. While the distribution of vaccines is underway and the Biden government is taking precautionary measures to bring the pandemic under control, the news that another global health crisis may be just around the corner is not what many of us now do not want to hear.

Mark Woolhouse, a professor of infectious epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, suggested that another pandemic could be imminent through an unknown ‘Disease X’. He acknowledged that in 2017 he and some colleagues had 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 looming pandemic should be on everyone’s radar. ‘You can use the expression’ this is when, not as ‘,’ he declared it possible.

“We thought the next emerging pandemic could be a virus we do not even know about – honestly we thought it was the most likely scenario,” he said. At a meeting the following year, experts investigated what the disease might be and found the possibility of a new coronavirus with Mers or Sers.

“I’m not sure much is being thought about the next threat, while the world is fully concentrating on dealing with the one he has. I absolutely agree that there is more to think about,” he went on to say. “Unfortunately, I want to put it this way: we did a lot of work, we did our review, we are in 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 do not even know about,” he said. “Honestly, we thought this was the most likely scenario. It is to pick up those who are going to cause the next pandemic from this constant drop of new viruses that pop up. Sometimes there comes one, who notices the rare event. Is always difficult. ‘

It looks like there may not be a ‘post-pandemic’ in the near future.

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