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A 2022 statement from the World Health Organization (WHO), defines the term this way: “Disease X is [used] to indicate an unknown pathogen that could cause a serious international epidemic.”
Colored scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of SARS-CoV-2, speculated in 2020 as being the first virus to create Disease X [1] [2] [3]. Disease X is a placeholder name that was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in February 2018 on their shortlist of blueprint priority diseases to represent a hypothetical, unknown pathogen.
The ominously-named “Disease X” isn’t an actual disease (yet). But it’s gaining attention online as experts look beyond COVID-19 to future public health threats. What's happening
According to Dr. Kirsten Hokeness, Ph.D., immunologist and professor of biological and biomedical sciences at Bryant University, Disease X is a hypothetical pathogen.
The first known case was identified on 24 October 2024, [1] with the first recorded fatality recorded on 10 November 2024. [8] Central authorities were only notified later, [1] with the Ministry of Public Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo reporting the outbreak to the World Health Organization (WHO) on 29 November 2024.
In 2018, the WHO coined the term, Disease X, which "represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease" in order to focus research and development on likely candidates for the next, at-the-time unknown, pandemic. [13]
A mysterious illness, which the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling "disease X," has killed at least 31 people — mostly children — in the remote Panzi region of the ...
Scientific Advisory Group for Origins of Novel Pathogens (or SAGO) [1] [2] [3] is a permanent advisory body of the World Health Organization, formed in July 2021, with a broad objective to examine emerging infectious diseases, including COVID-19.