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Is Covid-19 Disease X?
Down To Earth
|April 01, 2020
The pandemic could be the unknown disease World Health Organization warned about in 2018
In 2018, the World Health Organization (who) released a list of 10 diseases that can cause epidemics and all were viral in nature. Besides the usual suspects such as zika, Ebola and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or sars (triggered by a coronavirus), it also had a Disease X, to be caused by an unknown pathogen (see “Repeated Attacks”, p37). There is now a growing consensus that covid-19 is Disease X.
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