World not prepared for Disease X warns WHO’s top doctor | Health News News [Video]

A fresh pandemic even deadlier than Covid-19 could be on the horizon and humanity is not remotely prepared to deal with it, WHO’s top doctor has warned.

World Health Organisation boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said ‘Disease X’ could wreak havoc across the globe because people have failed to learn lessons from previous pandemics.

Speaking at the World Government Summit in Dubai, Dr Tedros said civilisation was ‘unprepared’ for the next pandemic.

‘Exactly six years ago, I said the world was not prepared for a pandemic and expressed my concern at that time that a pandemic could happen any time,’ he told those in attendance.

‘Less than two years later, the Covid-19 pandemic struck, and the world is still not prepared today.

‘In the aftermath of Covid-19, millions of people are dead with social, economic and political shocks that reverberate to this day.

‘The painful lessons we learned are in danger of being forgotten as attention turns to many other crises …