Updated: 9 Mar 2021, 10:43
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Experts have told The Sun Online how unknown viruses which are currently hiding unseen in animals around the world could mutate and cross over to humans.
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Bats are being caught and studied to try and predict the next pandemicCredit: Justin Ng/Linfa Wang
With the world currently fighting the Covid pandemic, scientists are in a race against time to find the potential source of the next one.
Animals and the viruses which lurk within them are one of the leading suspects as expanding human populations come into contact with nature.
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Updated: 12 Feb 2021, 10:51
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MANKIND is on a collision course with nature around the world which could trigger an outbreak known as Disease X which could be worse than the Black Death.
Scientists have predicted we could face a health emergency or pandemic every five years likely caused by zoonotic diseases - when infections jump from animals to humans.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced this week it believes Covid is likely one of these types of infections as it is believed to have crossed from animals such as bats to humans.
It has been warned even more deadly diseases like this are on the horizon - with warnings the next pandemic could be on the scale of the Black Death, which is estimated to have killed 75million people.
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