At a annual WHO R&D Blueprint meeting held February 6-7, 2018, “a group of experts” which Peter Daszak belongs to coined the term “Disease X”. They were “referring to the next pandemic, which would be caused by an unknown, novel pathogen that hadn’t yet entered the human population.” and of which there was an “absence of efficacious drugs and/or vaccines”. [1]
The objective of the blueprint and meeting was “to reduce the time between declaration of a public health emergency and the availability of effective diagnostic tests, vaccines, antivirals and other treatments that can save lives and avert a public health crisis”
Disease X would likely:
- Result from a virus originating in animals and would emerge somewhere on the planet where economic development drives people and wildlife together.
- Be confused with other diseases early in the outbreak and would spread quickly and silently; exploiting networks of human travel and trade, it would reach multiple countries and thwart containment.
- Have a mortality rate higher than a seasonal flu but would spread as easily as the flu.
- It would shake financial markets even before it achieved pandemic status.
On October 15, 2019, “CEPI launches new call for innovative platform technologies to rapidly respond to Disease X”, their first call for fast new vaccine platforms went out in 2017.
At Davos 2024 the WEF “preparing for Disease X” with “disinformation” threatens! [2, 3].