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'Disease X' deaths could dwarf Covid and wipe out millions of victims at any time, medics fear, and although it doesn't yet exist experts are worried about the impact it could have
The Hantavirus that was identified in the 1993 in an outbreak in New Mexico and is also known as Sin Nombre Virus – Spanish for “the virus with no name”.
Donald Grant is the young scientist who stepped up to finish the work of his mentor who died from Ebola. He is now rebuilding the research programme on Lassa fever in Sierra Leone.
Climate change and more contact between wild animals and humans increases the risk of diseases such as Lassa fever, Rift Valley Fever and Nipah.
The Davos summit comes after warnings from experts that a hypothetical new pandemic named 'Disease X' could kill 20 times more people around the world than Covid-19