WHO warns to prepare for an even deadlier disease

Pamdemic Threats In 2018, the WHO identified nine priority diseases (listed) that pose the biggest risk to public health. They were deemed to be most risky due to a lack of treatments or their ability to cause a pandemic

Luke 21:11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.

Important Takeaways:

  • Prepare for a disease even deadlier than Covid, WHO chief warns
  • The planet should be ready for a disease even deadlier than Covid, the head of the World Health Organization warned yesterday.
  • Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the World Health Assembly forum that the threat of another public health crisis could not be kicked ‘down the road’.
  • He also claimed that, despite the darkest days of the pandemic being consigned to history, a doomsday Covid variant with the power to send the world back to square one could still spawn.
  • The WHO has identified nine priority diseases that pose the biggest risk to public health. They were deemed to be most risky due to a lack of treatments or their ability to cause a pandemic.
  • Covid is on the list, along with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a disease transmitted by ticks which kills 30 per cent of those it hospitalizes.
  • Ebola, which kills around half of those it infects, is another
  • Marburg, one of the deadliest pathogens ever discovered
  • The UN health agency has also warned about ‘Disease X’, reflecting the fact that the next pandemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease.
  • WHO officials are currently working on an updated list.

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