Disease X: Unveiling the Truth

Disease X: Unveiling the Truth
Disease X, a placeholder name coined by the World Health Organization (WHO), represents a potential future pandemic. Global health experts, including Kate Bingham, the former chair of the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce, warn that Disease X could be far deadlier than the Covid-19 pandemic, which claimed over 20 million lives globally. Instead of a specific disease, Disease X denotes an unknown pathogen capable of causing a large-scale epidemic.