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Healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom are gearing up for a potential new pandemic ‘Disease X’. According to experts, the new virus may be deadlier than Covid-19 and may have a similar impact as the Spanish Flu. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has dubbed the anticipated next pandemic as 'Disease X', stating that it might already be “on its way”. Now let’s understand what is ‘Disease X’ and what we know so far.     #DiseaseX #Covid #WHO #UK #DiseaseXPandemic                  ~PR.151~ED.155~GR.125~HT.96~

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00:00 Cases of coronavirus have reduced significantly now after over three years of small and big

00:11 waves.

00:13 After the dreadful COVID-hit years which saw the death of around 7 million people globally,

00:17 the disease has now become a familiar health concern.

00:20 But now healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom are gearing up for a potential new

00:25 pandemic called Disease X.

00:29 According to experts, the new virus may be deadlier than COVID-19 and may have a similar

00:33 impact as the Spanish flu.

00:36 The World Health Organization has dubbed the anticipated next pandemic as Disease X, stating

00:42 that it might already be on its way.

00:44 Now let's understand what is Disease X and what we know so far.

00:50 The WHO dubbed the potential next pandemic as Disease X and said that it may already

00:54 be on its way, according to health expert Dame Kate Bingham, who chaired the UK's Vaccine

00:59 Task Force in 2020.

01:01 Disease X may have the capacity to result in 20 times more fatalities as compared to

01:06 COVID-19.

01:07 She fears approximately 50 million fatalities can occur.

01:11 Bingham said that the world would have to prepare for mass vaccination drives and deliver

01:16 the doses in record time.

01:17 The health expert compared the infectiousness of Disease X with that of measles, with the

01:22 fatality rate with that of Ebola, which is 67%.

01:26 She said that somewhere in the world, the disease is replicating and sooner or later

01:30 somebody will start feeling sick.

01:32 Currently, there is no approved vaccine available for Disease X.

01:37 Bingham stressed the importance of scientists developing a collection of different prototype

01:42 vaccines for every threatening virus family.

01:45 Bingham said that just a head start on vaccines for the deadly virus may help target its specific

01:51 features.

01:52 According to her, while scientists have identified 25 virus families surrounding thousands of

01:57 individual viruses, there are millions of other viruses yet to be discovered.

02:01 The health expert said that one of the initial actions that need to be taken is to allocate

02:05 the necessary financial resources.

02:08 She said, "The monetary cost of inaction is seismic.

02:11 After all, even COVID-19, a milder virus than Disease X, managed to leave us holding a bill

02:17 for $16 trillion in both lost output and public health expenditure."

02:26 (upbeat music)

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