Disease X: World Health Organisation issues global alert for potential pandemic
THE World Health Organisation has a list of diseases which pose a serious outbreak threat. Ebola. Lassa fever. CCHF haemorrhagic fever. Nipah / henipaviral. MESS. SARS. Zika. Now a high-level meeting of the world’s best medical scientists has added another to the high-risk list. It’s been dubbed ‘Disease X’. The World Health Organisation has issued…