The World Health Organization warned about the threat of a new epidemic long before the appearance of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. COVID-19 has turned our lives upside down, but that doesn’t mean that another dangerous pathogen with a pandemic firepower cannot appear any time soon. WHO is still updating the list of viruses and bacteria that have the potential to cause a new global epidemic. Here they are.
Nowa pandemic po COVID-19?
Scientists agree that the next threat could be caused by viruses or zoonotic bacteria, as was the case with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Zoonoses are becoming an increasingly real threat as people interfere more and more with the environment, and the meat of wild animals is still traded and eaten.
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Pathogens now have ideal conditions to spread due to human migration and travel, climate change, urbanization, population growth, and dense population. According to experts, it has never been easier in history to spread an epidemic as it is today.
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To avoid another deadly epidemic, scientists track viruses and bacteria. Which pathogens pose the greatest threat now? What could trigger another pandemic?
List of diseases that pose the greatest threat to public health due to epidemic potential according to the WHO:
- Ebola virus
- Marburg virus
- Lassa fever
- Nipah virus
- Crimean Congolese haemorrhagic fever
- chikungunya
- flu
- yellow fever
- hantavirus
- Zika
WHO also mentions “disease X”, a condition that could cause a global pandemic, but it is a pathogen that is currently unknown to us.
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