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‘Pandemic fits the Disease X category’: World Health Organisation’s coronavirus warning
Years ago, experts warned that a mysterious rampant illness could spark a global health epidemic. Now, they warn it’s here.
Gavin Fernando @gavindfernando
news.com.au
February 24, 20207:01pm
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Years ago, experts warned that a mysterious rampant illness could spark a global health epidemic. Now, they warn it’s here. Picture: NIAID-RML via AP Source:AP
Years ago, experts warned that a mysterious rampant illness could spark a global health epidemic.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) gave this illness the name “Disease X” in 2017 – not referring to a specific disease, but to any new unknown pathogen that could potentially cause a deadly pandemic.
The new coronavirus, also called Covid-19, is rapidly coming to fit that very profile.
‘FIRST PANDEMIC THAT FITS DISEASE X’
The deadly virus, which started life in central China, has now infected almost 80,000 people around the world and killed over 2400.
The virus has spread well beyond China’s tightly-restricted borders, infecting hundreds in South Korea and Japan, more than 150 in Italy, and several more across the globe.
Unlike SARS, the coronavirus replicates at high concentrations in the nose and throat, and appears capable of spreading to those who show zero or mild symptoms.
Marion Koopmans, head of viroscience at Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, and a member of the WHO’s emergency committee, said this virus was becoming the first of its kind to fit the “Disease X” category.
“Whether it will be contained or not, this outbreak is rapidly becoming the first true pandemic challenge that fits the disease X category,” she wrote in the journal Cell.
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