WHO: Disease X deadly pandemic is out breaking BIGGER THAN SARS

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Disease X: World Health Organisation issues global alert for potential pandemic
A GLOBAL alert has been issued to the world’s doctors over a potentially savage pathogen which has been dubbed Disease X. Conditions are ripe for its arrival.

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THE World Health Organisation has a list of diseases which pose a serious outbreak threat.

Ebola.

Lassa fever.

CCHF haemorrhagic fever.

Nipah / henipaviral.

MESS.

SARS.

Zika.

Now a high-level meeting of the world’s best medical scientists has added another to the high-risk list.

It’s been dubbed ‘Disease X’.

The World Health Organisation has issued a warning for ‘Disease X’.Source:News Limited

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The group, based in Geneva, convenes each year to discuss what new diseases pose the greatest potential of turning into a global pandemic.

This year, they’ve conceded they don’t know what it is.

But their computations warn conditions are ripe for its arrival.

And it’s not just a stressed Mother Nature — with new organisms constantly being exposed by deforestation and close contact between humans and animals — who’s likely to be at fault.

The WHO points out the use of chemical warfare is on the rise, both on the battlefield and in international espionage. And a series of deadly new diseases have recently been deliberately created through gene editing.

What if one goes rogue?

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“Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease,” the WHO said in a statement.

It believes the world’s not in a good position to respond to such a surprise.

“History tells us that it is likely the next big outbreak will be something we have not seen before”, WHO committee science adviser John-Arne Rottingen told the Telegraph. “The point is to make sure we prepare and plan flexibly in terms of vaccines and diagnostic tests.”

A young boy runs in front of a group of security guards wearing surgical masks to protect against the SARS virus as they patrol in Beijing, 2003. Picture: APSource:AP

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GERM WARFARE

The WHO is worried a new international public health crisis could come from any direction.

Not that it doesn’t have enough to worry about as it is

The flu virus continues to rapidly mutate. And new exotic pathogens keep jumping to humans from animals.

“These diseases pose major public health risks, and further research and development is needed, including surveillance and diagnostics”, it states.

But a recent explosion in gene editing technology — such as CRISPR — has come at a bad time.

It highlights how post-World War II taboos against the use of nerve and poison gas, as well as weaponised bacteria and viruses, have been breaking down.

North Korea stands accused of using a nerve agent to kill the brother of their leader, Kim Jong-un.

Syrian children and adults receive treatment for a suspected chemical attack at a makeshift clinic on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region. Picture: AFPSource:AFP

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Russia stands accused of using a radioactive substance to murder a former spy in Britain in 2006. It’s again been implicated in a nerve-agent attack on another spy, Sergei Skripal, earlier this month.

Syria — after promising to hand over all its chemical weapons several years ago — is once again being accused of unleashing toxic substances against its own population in towns and suburbs under the control of rebel forces.

The WHO points out that synthetic diseases will face no natural immunity in the world’s population. Nobody has ever been exposed to them before. So their immune systems haven’t found any weak spots in such a disease.

This means a deliberate outbreak is likely to spread fast, with a high level of fatality.

And the increasing ease with which genetic material can be crafted makes the likelihood of a ‘rogue’ researcher crafting biological weapons that much more likely.

Urban jungle ... A security guard wears a mask in Hong Kong where an apartment block was quarantined.Source:News Limited

NATURE SICKENED

Despite the increased threat of manufactured plague, the WHO still believes it is much more likely the next worldwide epidemic will come from nature.

It highlights increasing human population densities make it easier for contagious diseases to spread. It also brings more people in contact with a greater variety of animals, plants and soils as towns and cities spread.

HIV is believed to have jumped to humans from monkeys.

SARS is likely to have passed from bats to civet cats before invading the human population.

ZIKA is carried by mosquitoes.

“The intensity of animal and human contact is becoming much greater as the world develops. This makes it more likely new diseases will emerge but also modern travel and trade make it much more likely they will spread,” says WHO scientific adviser Professor Marion Koopmans.

Several such diseases were considered for listing at this year’s meeting.

Monkeypox. Leptospirosis. Chikungunya.

“The importance of the diseases discussed was considered for special populations, such as refugees, internally displaced populations, and victims of disasters,” the WHO statement reads.

But none have quiet yet set off alarm bells.

Instead, the WHO hopes that formally designating “Disease X” as the unknown next pandemic will help spur researchers worldwide into preparing a rapid response to any surprise outbreak.

Children in Hong Kong learning ballet lessons wear masks to protect themselves from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003.Source:AP

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Scientists warn of mysterious and deadly new epidemic called Disease X that could kill millions around the world
The World Health Organisation has added the unknown future pathogen to a list of deadly threats to mankind

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An unknown and deadly new illness dubbed Disease X has been added to the list of potential global epidemics that could kill millions.

Each year scientists with the World Health Organisation (WHO) create a list of the most likely diseases to break out into a worldwide pandemic.

This year, among the familiar Ebola, SARS, and Zika viruses is the new name of Disease X.

And unlike the other pathogens, it is not known what causes Disease X or how doctors could try to treat it.

Researchers said that they added Disease X to the threat list to recognise the fact that the next deadly pandemic could be started by an illness that has not caused any problems before.

The WHO is warning doctors and scientists to do more to prepare for the next pandemic to sweep the world (Image: Moment RF)
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"Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease."

Norwegian scientist and WHO adviser John-Arne Rottingen said that it was likely the next outbreak would be "something we have not seen before".

"It may seem strange to be adding an ‘X’ but the point is to make sure we prepare and plan flexibly in terms of vaccines and diagnostic tests," he told The Daily Telegraph.

One of the biggest threats is a disease or virus which scientists have not yet identified (Image: PA)
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Disease X could even be man-made, rather than a fluke of nature. There are growing fears that the use and development of chemical and biological weapons are on the rise. In Syria's bloody civil war chemical bombs have been dropped on civilians on numerous occasions.

And closer to home, the police have confirmed that a nerve agent, probably created in a lab by state-sponsored scientists as a targeted weapon, was used to attack the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury this week.

Last year North Korea is believed to have used the nerve agent VX to assassinate the half-brother of dictator Kim Jong-Un in an airport in a Malaysian airport.

Mr Rottingen said that the man-made viruses and diseases were especially dangerous because humans have not built up any resistance over time to them, leaving them free to sweep across the globe before governments and doctors can catch up.

Disease X could come about through state-sponsored chemical weapons, which have caused devastation in places like Syria (Image: AFP)
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“Synthetic biology allows for the creation of deadly new viruses. It is also the case that where you have a new disease there is no resistance in the population and that means it can spread fast."

But it was just as possible that Disease X could spring up from the natural world, just as previous deadly epidemics such as Spanish Flu or HIV.

“The intensity of animal and human contact is becoming much greater as the world develops. This makes it more likely new diseases will emerge but also modern travel and trade make it much more likely they will spread,” the WHO adviser Professor Marion Koopmans told The Daily Telegraph.

Some of the proven killers on the list, such as Zika or SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) caught the world by surprise when they first arose and killed hundreds or even thousands before they were brought under control. Before scientists became familiar with these threats, they to would have been considered a Disease X.

Disease X could be as dangerous as Zika, which causes microcephaly in newborn babies (Image: REUTERS)
The WHO hopes that formally adding a future Disease X to the list will push countries and researchers to redouble their efforts to create protections against unknown epidemics.

But more common diseases could also cause devastation. Yesterday, the WHO warned that the next global flu epidemic could begin "tomorrow" and kill as many as 33 million people in just 200 days.

Jonathan Quick, chairman of the Global Health Council and a project leader for the World Health Organisation, has written a new book, Ending Epidemics: The Looming Threat To Humanity And How To Stop It.

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Giving a stark warning, he said: “With disrupted supply of food and medicines and without enough survivors to run computer or energy systems, the global economy would collapse.

“Starvation and looting could lay waste to parts of the world “It’s a disaster movie night. Yet it is waiting to come true thanks to influenza, the most diabolical viral killer known to humankind."

Exactly 100 years ago the Spanish Flu outbreak swept around the world, killing about 100 million people around the world, more than the four years of the First World War which had only just finished.

Victims of 1918's devastating Spanish Flu outbreak are buried in mass graves (Image: www.alamy.com)
Celebrities and oridinary citizens were struck down alike. In America, which was hit particularly hard, so many people died there was no space left in morgues and families often had to dig their own graves.

Quick said that while there were lots of precautions governments could take to stop future epidemics, most countries were ignoring the threat.

“The good news is that there is much we can do to prevent this. The bad news is that much of it is not being done. We are just as vulnerable now as we were 100 years ago.”

Spanish flu killed 100 million and a similar epidemic is set to strike again (Image: www.alamy.com)
Dr Greg Poland, an expert in viruses as the Mayo Clinic, another global flu crisis was “100 per cent” certain.

He said: “We will have another pandemic. What’s unpredictable is the severity of it.

“When you begin to feel comfortable, you’re well on the road to bad things happening.”

 

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Fever that killed 40 MILLION returning? Spanish flu anniversary coincides with DISEASE X

THE emergence of a deadly new pathogen dubbed Disease X mysteriously coincides with the exact date the killer Spanish flu claimed its first victims.

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The Spanish flu pandemic erupted in 1918, spreading like wildfire from person to person around the world and leaving piles of bodies in its wake.

The first cases were first reported at Fort Riley, Kansas, in the United States, on March 11, but the illness earned its nickname “Spanish flu” because Spain seemed to be particularly badly hit.

And now there are signs a similar illness could be about to bring the same devastation to the world.

The World Health Organisation has put medical workers across the globe on alert for the new pathogen, called "Disease X'.

The Geneva-based organisation has not identified exactly what it is but wants to be prepared for an unknown mass killer.

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WHO said in a statement: ”Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease.”

The mysterious illness now classed as more serious than Lassa fever in Nigeria and Ebola, which has killed thousands of people.

And experts have long-warned there could be another massive epidemic.

"History tells us that it is likely the next big outbreak will be something we have not seen before", WHO committee science adviser John-Arne Rottingen told the Telegraph.

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If Disease X is as deadly as Spanish flu, which killed between 3% and 6% of the world’s population, it would be a disaster like never seen before.

If the same proportion of people died today, that would amount to 380 million people – six times entire population of the UK.

WHO has previously warned the flu virus continues to mutate, finding new ways to spread from human to human.

The body is calling for major improvements to existing vaccines and wants more research to go into disease prevention.

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Over two days in early February, theWorld Health Organisation (WHO)convened an expert committee at its Geneva headquarters to consider the unthinkable.

The goal was to identify pathogens with the potential to spread and kill millions but for which there are currently no, or insufficient, countermeasures available. As the meeting opened, the city’s eponymous lake reflected a crisp blue winter sky. Only as the meeting progressed did an icy rain set in.

It was the third time the committee, consisting of leading virologists, bacteriologists and infectious disease experts, had met to consider diseases with epidemic or pandemic potential. But when the 2018 list was released two weeks ago it included an entry not seen in previous years.

In addition to eight frightening but familiar diseases including Ebola, Zika, and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), the list included a ninth global threat: Disease X.

Nowa Paye, 9, is taken to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola infection in the village of Freeman Reserve in 2014 CREDIT: AP/JEROME DELAY
What is Disease X?
Disease X is not a newly identified pathogen but what military planners call a “known unknown”. It’s a disease sparked by a biological mutation, or perhaps an accident or terror attack, that catches the world by surprise and spreads fast.

By including it on the list, the WHO is acknowledging that infectious diseases and the epidemics they spawn are inherently unpredictable. Like the Spanish flu which killed 50m to 100m people between 1918 and 1920, Disease X is the catastrophe nobody saw coming until it was too late.

“Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown,” says the WHO.


It has been included on the list not to terrify us, but to ensure that the global health community builds the resilience and capacity needed to tackle all threats - not just the predictable ones.

Where might it come from?
One source of Disease X could be the deliberate utilisation of infectious disease as a weapon.

While bio-weapons have been used since the middle ages (the Tartars catapulted the cadavers of plague victims into the besieged seaport of Caffa in 1346, for example), new scientific developments including gene editing and an exponential increase in computing power make it easier than ever to develop lethal biological agents.

The US and USSR explored bio-weapon development during the Cold War and both continue to hold live cultures of deadly pathogens, including the smallpox virus, in secretive and (hopefully) secure labs. More recently, the Iraqi military toyed with botulinum toxins under Saddam Hussein, Al Qaeda operatives experimented with anthrax and, in 2014, a laptop captured from Islamic State (IS) was found to contain instructions on how to weaponise the plague virus.



North Korea and Syria are also thought to have bio warfare capability. Syria, which has been using chemical weapons against civilian populations in the current conflict, suffered a rare smallpox outbreak in 1972 and is believed to have held wild smallpox strains within its military-industrial complex ever since. Equally alarming, anthrax antibodies were detected in the blood of a North Korean military defector last year, raising fears that Pyongyang has a store of weaponised anthrax.

On the bright side, the number of incidents involving bioweapons to date has been very low, with hoaxes far outnumbering genuine attacks. Non-state actors, including IS, appear to lack the capacity to develop a bio-weapon with large scale reach.

But this could change. It has long been feared, for instance, that military grade pathogens could leak from Soviet labs onto the black market and into the hands of terrorists.

Only last year Canadian researchers published a peer-reviewed paper detailing how they had synthetically engineered horsepox (a close relative of the smallpox virus) from scratch using equipment now which falls within the reach of many terror groups.

The paper’s publication has been widely condemned as a security breach. The details provided could “substantively assist those with lesser degrees of experience to synthesize smallpox”, said one critic.

“The synthesis of horsepox virus takes the world one step closer to the reemergence of smallpox as a threat to global health security”, said another.

Bird flu was found on a duck farm in England on Monday days after it was discovered in Dutch chickens, forcing authorities to destroy poultry and restrict exports, although it was not a strain known to be deadly to humans CREDIT: DARREN STAPLES/REUTERS
What about animals?
Bio-weapons are one risk, animals another.

The most probable source of Disease X is zoonotic diseases, or Zoonoses. These are diseases present in wild and domesticated animals that can be transmitted to humans.

Some 70% of newly discovered diseases in the last century have been zoonotic. The hemorrhagic bug Ebola is a prime example. The 2013-2016 West African pandemic is believed to have started when a one-year-old boy was bitten by an Ebola-infected bat in Guinea. The disease spread to his mother, sister and grandmother and then on to kill more than 11,000 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

HIV is also a zoonosis. The human HIV epidemic most likely began when someone killed and ate a wild chimpanzee. It has since infected some 70m people and killed 35m.

A couple kisses as they make a line to be assisted at an Influenza A (H1N1) (swine flu virus) prevention and detection medical mobile unit in Mexico City, on April 29, 2009 CREDIT: LUIS ACOSTA/AFP
Domestic livestock are the most likely incubator for Disease X. Large groups of farm animals (chickens, pigs and even camels) kept in close quarters create ideal breeding conditions for zoonotic disease. The viruses, constantly mutating, move rapidly from wild animals to farm animals and then on to humans. They can be spread by ticks but the fastest moving are airborne.

Disease X could be a mutation of an existing animal disease like avian influenza or African swine fever or it could be a brand-new pathogen that moves from animals to humans. As we farm, mine and colonize ever more remote locations of the planet, the more likely we are to come into contact with as yet unknown animal bugs. Cutting down the African bush for farmland or mining the Brazilian rainforest presents a constant risk of exposure to new zoonotic diseases.


Hiding in plain sight
Although the WHO focuses on unknown pathogens in its description of Disease X, another major pandemic risk comes from the potential evolution of existing diseases.

HIV, Tuberculosis, and influenza have already demonstrated their capacity for devastating epidemic spread. Global health infrastructure currently keeps them under control through a combination of surveillance, effective treatments - and good luck.

Influenza is one of the biggest threats. This was proven in 2009 when H1N1 (swine flu) went rapidly pandemic. 213 countries and territories reported cases of the virus and an estimated 285,000 people died in its wake.

That is a massive number, but it represents a case fatality rate of just .02%. Approximately one out of 5 people on the planet were infected, but very few died. In other words, H1N1 was highly infectious, but it was not highly virulent.

On the other hand, H151 avian influenza has a mortality rate in humans of about 60%. At present, H151 does not spread human-to-human. However, it could easily evolve and a virus with the infectiousness of H1N1 and the mortality rate of H151 would be devastating.

Handout photo shows technician preparing specimens from a master H1N1 virus sample for the pre-production of vaccine at laboratory in DresdenCREDIT: HO NEW /REUTERS
Tuberculosis (TB) is another continually evolving disease. The most basic forms of TB infection are cured with simple antibiotic treatment, but the bacteria which cause Tuberculosis are rapidly developing resistance to antibiotics. In 2016, an estimated 490,000 people worldwide developed multidrug resistant TB and it has been reported in 117 countries worldwide.

HIV is a third existing pandemic that could slip out of control. Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) allow people with the condition to live normal healthy lives. However, HIV is also becoming resistant to treatment. Among countries that report relevant data to the WHO, 10-15% of people are diagnosed with HIV which is resistant to the standard antiviral treatments.

These numbers could get worse. “HIV is the fastest mutating organism on the planet”, said Dr. Edsel Salvana, an infectious disease specialist at the University of the Philippines. “We are seeing new strains of HIV that are highly aggressive and develop drug resistance faster. We need to stay on top of this with careful surveillance, and we need to develop new and more durable drugs.”



Doing battle with Disease X
How do you prepare for a threat you cannot predict?

The WHO has chosen a tried and tested approach to preparing for Disease X. Its doctrine flies under the age old banner of “preparedness”.

By improving disease surveillance and strengthening the capacity of local health systems across the globe, it aims to spot an outbreak early, contain it and kill it off before it spreads.

Few experts, if any, disagree with the approach - it’s really the only one we have - but many wonder if adequate health care facilities exist on the ground internationally to make it work.

Dr Nahid Bhadelia, Medical Director of Special Pathogens at Boston University Medical Center, compared the system of preventing the spread of new diseases to a city building a series of dams or seawalls to protect itself from floods. In the case of diseases, the presence of a strong local health system provides the vital early warning and treatment needed to contain the outbreak.

"Not helping strengthen international capacity to combat infectious diseases is like refusing to build barriers against the tide in some parts of our ‘global city’ and expecting to be protected when the flood comes."

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'Disease X' could be the world's next epidemic
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The World Health Organization has added a mysterious, yet-to-exist new malady to its list of nine diseases that may cause a worldwide epidemic. (Reuters)

As if Ebola, Zika and SARS aren’t enough to worry about, The World Health Organization has added a mysterious, yet-to-exist new malady to its list of nine diseases that may cause a worldwide epidemic.

“Disease X” is not a newly identified killer pathogen. It’s a so called “known unknown” — that could be created by biological mutation, such as previous deadly epidemics such as Spanish Flu or HIV. Or it might be spawned by a terror attack, or simply an accident.

“Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown,” the organization said.

By including this mystery killer on its “List of Blueprint priority diseases,” along with eight better-known diseases such as MERS and Marburg Virus, WHO was aiming to acknowledge that infectious diseases are unpredictable.

"The intensity of animal and human contact is becoming much greater as the world develops. This makes it more likely new diseases will emerge, but also modern travel and trade make it much more likely they will spread.”

- WHO adviser Marion Koopmans
The idea behind including Disease X is not to scare people, but to spur public health officials into making sure that they are prepared for all threats, not just the predictable ones, the organization said.

“The intensity of animal and human contact is becoming much greater as the world develops,” WHO adviser Marion Koopmans told The Telegraph. “This makes it more likely new diseases will emerge, but also modern travel and trade make it much more likely they will spread.”

Most times an epidemic spreads, it doesn’t announce itself first – such as Zika’s rampage through South America and the Caribbean in 2015-2016.

This was the third time WHO convened the committee of experts in viruses, bacteria and infectious disease to consider potential epidemics and pandemics. It was the first time that Disease X made the list.

One possible source of such an epidemic could be the deliberate release of Disease X as a weapon, either by a rogue state like North Korea or Syria, which is known to use chemical weapons, or by terrorist organizations like ISIS or al-Qaeda.

New scientific abilities like gene editing, especially when combined with today’s supercomputers, make developing biological weapons easier than when the US and USSR experimented with them during the Cold War.

An unknown nerve agent, for instance, was reportedly used in an assassination attempt last week on a Russian man who spied for the British and his daughter. North Korea is suspected of using a different nerve agent to assassinate Kim Jong-un’s half-brother last year.

Man-made viruses and bacteria would be harder for the human body to fend off because there is no natural immunity.

With Post Wire Services.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post.

 

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As if Ebola, Zika and SARS aren’t enough to worry about, The World Health Organization has added a mysterious, yet-to-exist new malady to its list of nine diseases that may cause a worldwide epidemic.

“Disease X” is not a newly identified killer pathogen. It’s a so called “known unknown” — that could be created by biological mutation, such as previous deadly epidemics such as Spanish Flu or HIV. Or it might be spawned by a terror attack, or simply an accident.

“Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown,” the organization said.

By including this mystery killer on its “List of Blueprint priority diseases,” along with eight better-known diseases such as MERS and Marburg Virus, WHO was aiming to acknowledge that infectious diseases are unpredictable.

The idea behind including Disease X is not to scare people, but to spur public health officials into making sure that they are prepared for all threats, not just the predictable ones, the organization said.

“The intensity of animal and human contact is becoming much greater as the world develops,” WHO adviser Marion Koopmans told The Telegraph. “This makes it more likely new diseases will emerge, but also modern travel and trade make it much more likely they will spread.”

Most times an epidemic spreads, it doesn’t announce itself first – such as Zika’s rampage through South America and the Caribbean in 2015-2016.

This was the third time WHO convened the committee of experts in viruses, bacteria and infectious disease to consider potential epidemics and pandemics. It was the first time that Disease X made the list.

One possible source of such an epidemic could be the deliberate release of Disease X as a weapon, either by a rogue state like North Korea or Syria, which is known to use chemical weapons, or by terrorist organizations like ISIS or al-Qaeda.

New scientific abilities like gene editing, especially when combined with today’s supercomputers, make developing biological weapons easier than when the US and USSR experimented with them during the Cold War.

An unknown nerve agent, for instance, was reportedly used in an assassination attempt last week on a Russian man who spied for the British and his daughter. North Korea is suspected of using a different nerve agent to assassinate Kim Jong-un’s half-brother last year.

Man-made viruses and bacteria would be harder for the human body to fend off because there is no natural immunity.

With Post Wire Services

 

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It's been labelled by the World Health Organisation as the unknown future pathogen to a list of deadly threats to mankind

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The illness has been included on a World Health Organisation list of diseases which could turn into a worldwide pandemic

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A potentially deadly new illness dubbed Disease X capable of killing millions around the world could be unleashed by terrorists, worried scientists believe.

The terrifying disease has made a list of illnesses by The World Health Organisation which could turn into a worldwide pandemic - and the stark warning reflects fears that the next global health crisis could be man-made.

Researchers say an unpredictable pathogen could prove devastating to global health, and have urged governments to be on their guard.

It follows a string of instances where rogue states and terror groups were found to be intent on unleashing biological warfare.

One of the biggest threats is a disease or virus which scientists have not yet identified (Image: PA)

Scientists fear that the next global pandemic could be man-made (Image: Moment RF)
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• What is Disease X? Everything you need to know about the potential epidemic that could wipe out millions

Gene editing and use of powerful computing make developing lethal biological agents easier than ever.

At the height of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR experimented with pathogens, including smallpox.

In 2014 a laptop seized from ISIS revealed instructions had been drawn up to turn the plague virus in a weapon.

Iraq's military carried out experiments using botulinum toxins, while chemical bombs are known to have been used in Syria's bloody civil war.

Traces of anthrax were found in the blood of a North Korean defector last year, prompting alarm that Kim Jong-un's secretive state may be developing biological weapons.

Last year a North Korean defector was found to have traces of anthrax in his blood, sparking fears that Kim Jong-un's state could be developing biological weapons (Image: AFP)
The Telegraph reports that it's feared military grade pathogens developed in the former Soviet Union could become available to terror groups.

In the past week former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned by a nerve agent in Salisbury.

Each year scientists with the WHO create a list of the most likely diseases to break out into a worldwide pandemic.

This year the scientists have added Disease X - although not much is known about it.

Researchers said that they added the mystery illness to the threat list to recognise the fact that the next deadly pandemic could be started by an illness that has not caused any problems before.

Ex Russian spy Sergei Skripal collapsed after being exposed to a deadly nerve agent (Image: Internet Unknown)

Yulia Skripal is fighting for her life after being poisoned in Salisbury in Wiltshire last Sunday (Image: AFP)
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• Scientists warn of mysterious and deadly new epidemic called Disease X that could kill millions around the world

The WHO said: "Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease."

Researchers said that they added Disease X to the threat list to recognise the fact that the next deadly pandemic could be started by an illness that has not caused any problems before.

Norwegian scientist and WHO adviser John-Arne Rottingen said that it was likely the next outbreak would be "something we have not seen before".

"It may seem strange to be adding an ‘X’ but the point is to make sure we prepare and plan flexibly in terms of vaccines and diagnostic tests," he told The Daily Telegraph .

The WHO hopes that formally adding a future Disease X to the list will push countries and researchers to redouble their efforts to create protections against unknown epidemics.

Yesterday, the WHO warned that the next global flu epidemic could begin "tomorrow" and kill as many as 33 million people in just 200 days.

Jonathan Quick, chairman of the Global Health Council and a project leader for the World Health Organisation , has written a new book, Ending Epidemics: The Looming Threat To Humanity And How To Stop It.

Giving a stark warning, he said: “With disrupted supply of food and medicines and without enough survivors to run computer or energy systems, the global economy would collapse.

“Starvation and looting could lay waste to parts of the world.

“It’s a disaster movie night. Yet it is waiting to come true thanks to influenza, the most diabolical viral killer known to humankind."

Disease X could be as dangerous as Zika, which causes microcephaly in newborn babies (Image: REUTERS)

Scientists fear a pandemic like the outbreak of Spanish flu a century ago, which killed an estimated 10 million people (Image: www.alamy.com)
Exactly 100 years ago the Spanish Flu outbreak swept around the world, killing about 100 million people around the world, more than the four years of the First World War which had only just finished.

In America, which was hit particularly hard, so many people died there was no space left in morgues and families often had to dig their own graves.

Quick said that while there were lots of precautions governments could take to stop future epidemics, most countries were ignoring the threat.

“The good news is that there is much we can do to prevent this. The bad news is that much of it is not being done. We are just as vulnerable now as we were 100 years ago.”

 

[ahlau]

Disease X plz faster come la. As,Long can also kill the cheebye PAP elites, wipe,out all those corrupted ppl in power. I think good to end Humanity. Only pity those innocent young children

 

[OrLanChowHorFun]

man-made pandemic a matter of time..................world over-populated liao..................

hope the elite Jews will unleash plagues on the ''right'' people...............like blacks, Indians, Muslims and other undesirables...........

 

[whoami]

man-made pandemic a matter of time..................world over-populated liao..................

hope the elite Jews will unleash plagues on the ''right'' people...............like blacks, Indians, Muslims and other undesirables...........

U are still a gentile aka unclean undesirable, in the eye of jews.

 

[OrLanChowHorFun]

U are still a gentile aka unclean undesirable, in the eye of jews.

solly hor................i not Christian.............so not a Gentile............i'm a Buddhist Goy to them.............

 

[nayr69sg]

Hopefully when it comes those who say that western medicine is a cheat and scam stay at home and use their juices and herbs to treat themselves. We certainly don't need to waste our time on people who don't trust western medicine and do not want western medicine treatment.

Walk the talk ok? Die at home.