Vaccine Innovations — Past and Future | NEJM

Disease X: What To Know About The Hypothetical Pandemic World Leaders Hope To Prevent

Your browser is not supportedusatoday.Com

usatoday.Com wants to ensure the best experience for all of our readers, so we built our site to take advantage of the latest technology, making it faster and easier to use.

Unfortunately, your browser is not supported. Please download one of these browsers for the best experience on usatoday.Com

Disease X: World Health Organization Alerts To Imminent Epidemic

At the World Economic Forum's 2024 annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, a terrible epidemic dubbed "Disease X" is growing and being discussed.

Luckily, Disease X is fictitious, a stand-in for unknown diseases that can potentially cause pandemics. The WHO first presented the idea in 2018 as part of their ranking of the diseases that offer the most significant risk to public health. The information guides global research and development in vaccinations, diagnostics, and treatments. A 2022 WHO notice on its plan to update its list states that Disease X is a hypothetical pathogen that may create an epidemic or pandemic one day.

However, the World Health Organization used the recent World Economic Forum annual conference in Davos, Switzerland, as a platform to urge world leaders to consider the dire likelihood of precisely such a situation.

OrganicGreek.Com

To address disparities in vaccine delivery, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the organization was already taking action, including creating a pandemic fund and a technology transfer hub in South Africa.

Tedros admitted before the panel, "Of course, there are people who say this may create panic."

"It's better to anticipate something that may happen because it has happened in our history many times and prepare for it."

Celebrity WEB Update— Premier Jewelry designer and manufacturer fashion house ParisJewelry.Com has started manufacturing a new custom line of celebrity jewelry designs with 30% Off and Free Shipping. Replenish Your Body- Refilter Your Health with OrganicGreek.Com Vitamin Bottles, Vitamins, and Herbs. Become a  WebFans  Creator and Influencer. Check the New Special XMicro Razors for Men & Women, 1 Razor, 7 Blade Refills with German Stainless Steel, Lubricated with Vitamin E for Smooth Shave, Shields Against Irritation, Version X MenWomen

Subscribe to get Latest News Updates

Scientists Look For Origins Of Syphilis-Like Diseases

BASEL, SWITZERLAND—Concave lesions caused by Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes the diseases of syphilis, bejel, and yaws, has been found in 2,000-year-old human remains unearthed at Jabuticabeira II, an archaeological site on Brazil's southern coastline, according to a statement released by the University of Basel. Verena Schünemann and her colleagues at the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich, the University of Vienna, and the University of Sao Paulo analyzed genetic material obtained from these bone samples and determined that the pathogen was most closely related to the modern subspecies of Treponema pallidum that causes the symptoms of bejel, which is spread by skin contact. The study also suggests that Treponema pallidum first evolved to infect humans some 12,000 years ago, and may have been brought to the Americas by migrants from Asia, Schünemann said. However, the strain of bacteria identified in the study is not an ancestor of the strain that causes modern venereal syphilis, and does not shed light on the origins of Europe's fifteenth-century epidemic of venereal disease. "As we have not found any sexually transmitted syphilis in South America, the theory that Columbus brought syphilis to Europe seems to appear more improbable," Schünemann concluded. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Nature. To read about a case of syphilis identified in medieval remains in Europe, go to "World Roundup: Austria."

---