The World Health Organisation, WHO, has told the planet to
be ready for a disease deadlier than COVID-19.
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gave the
warning on Monday while unveiling a new global scheme to spot and track the
most dangerous pathogens during an annual meeting of its 194 member states in
Geneva, Switzerland.
Speaking with the World Health Assembly forum on the threat
of a new public health crisis that could not be kicked ‘down the road’, Tedros
stated that despite the darkest days of the pandemic being consigned to
history, a doomsday COVID-19 variant with the power to send the world back to
square one could still spawn.
”The threat of another variant emerging that causes new
surges of disease and death remains. And the threat of another pathogen
emerging with even deadlier potential remains,” he said.
Although, no specific diseases were named. But ‘Disease X’ —
a place-holder given to a devastating pathogen not yet discovered — is on the
UN agency’s list of pressing threats.
Dr Tedros’ comments come weeks after WHO declared that
COVID-19 was no longer a public health emergency of international concern.
Instead, the virus is now considered an ‘established and ongoing health issue.’
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