Doctors and scientists are trying to prevent unpleasant developments in the wake of the possible next pandemic.

On Monday, it became known from experts that British scientists have already started creating a vaccine to stop the next deadly pandemic within 100 days of its appearance.

Specifically, the Vaccine Development and Evaluation Center located at the UK Health and Safety Executive’s Porton Down campus is equipped with the world’s deadliest viruses alive.

In particular, as reported by the Guardian and the Daily Mail, although they initially focused on testing the effectiveness of vaccines against new variants of COVID-19, the Center’s 200 scientists are now aiming to develop prototype vaccines to deal with the so-called “Disease X”, i.e. the next possible pandemic pathogen.

In fact, Professor Dame Jenny Harries, head of the Health and Safety Agency, said that what they are trying to do there is to ensure that they are prepared. So if they have a new disease X, a new pathogen, they’ve done as much of that work as possible in advance.

They hope that they can prevent a new pandemic. However, in case they are unable to do so and must respond, then they’ve already started developing vaccines and therapeutics to stop it. They must be prepared for all threats, including those that have not yet been identified.

The center also added that Britain is committed to the 100-day mission, a global goal set by the G7 in 2021 to develop a vaccine against any new pandemic threat within 100 days of its identification.

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Disease X represents a severe international epidemic that could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease. The WHO adopted the name in 2018 to ensure that its design was flexible enough to adapt to disease.

In addition to Disease X, the World Health Organization’s list of the greatest infectious threats also includes COVID-19, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Ebola and Marburg viruses, Lassa fever, SARS and MERS syndromes, viruses Nipa and Henipa, Rift Valley fever and Zika virus.

Disease X could be caused by a yet unknown animal pathogen that has not yet infected human populations. Scientists say the destruction of ecosystems is increasingly favoring contact with wild animals, with the risk of transmitting some zoonotic disease.

Global warming also creates risks of vector-borne pathogens such as mosquitoes and ticks appearing in places where they were not endemic.

Others speculate that Disease X could originate from some synthetic virus that would be released from a laboratory as a result of an accident or even a terrorist act.

Source: CNN Greece

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