“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. The Blueprint list highlights infectious diseases for which we lack medical countermeasures. COVID-19: UK Expert Warns of Pandemic Worse Than Coronavirus in New Book.
To combat Disease X - as the WHO calls it - we will once again need vaccines to be engineered and delivered in record time. But, as things stand, there is no guarantee that will happen.
Dame Kate Bingham criticised the Government for closing down vaccine manufacturing capacity and shutting down a register where volunteers could sign up for clinical trials.
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