A disease named Disease X has been in the news for some time now.
Concern is being expressed on a large scale regarding this. This disease has been described by experts as 20 times deadlier than corona. Now WHO is also taking this disease seriously.
X disease has also been included in the agenda of this week’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
WHO Director Ghebreyesus will discuss this with other health officials. Till now no information has been found about the causes of this disease. Despite this, it is being considered quite dangerous for the future.
There will be discussion in the panel
The World Health Organization had put this disease on the monitoring list in the year 2017 itself. Along with SARS and Ebola, tests were also being conducted on X.
WHO had kept this on its top priority. It has also been named Disease
Among those with whom the WHO chief will meet on the disease in Davos are Brazilian Health Minister Nicia Trinidad Lima, Michel Demare, chairman of the board of pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, Royal Philips CEO Roy Jacobs and Preeta Reddy, executive vice president of India’s Apollo Hospitals. Will happen.
Dr. Ghebreyesus will lead a panel on ‘Preparing for Disease X’ on Wednesday.
what is the meaning of the meeting
The WEF said there is a need to be prepared if the world is to be protected from a more deadly pandemic. For this, health systems will have to be improved in view of the upcoming challenges.
For this, new necessary efforts will also be discussed. Now these meetings are being held to develop vaccines, medicines and tests as well as platform technology.
In fact, there are huge reserves of viruses in wildlife. This can be extremely dangerous for human health. Because there is a fear of this virus spreading from animals to humans.
Since when have we been keeping an eye on this?
WHO has also told that for how long this disease has been under surveillance. According to this, the Ebola epidemic spread in West Africa between 2014 and 2016.
During this time, some research was done which will be useful in case of X disease also. He said that we had lost the lives of 11 thousand people due to Ebola.
If we had been able to take the right steps in time, people’s lives could have been saved. Only after this, WHO started identifying those diseases which could be a threat in the future.