African doctor who discovered Ebola warns MORE killer viruses will pose a ‘threat to humanity’ after Covid
Jon Lockett
Updated: 23 Dec 2020, 15:34
THE doctor who discovered Ebola has warned more pandemics even deadlier than Covid are coming to threaten humanity.
Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum was part of the research team which investigated the first known outbreak of the Ebola virus in 1976.
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Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum was part of the research team which discovered Ebola
He now fears the world faces an unknown number of new and potentially fatal viruses emerging from Africa's tropical rainforests.