Disease X: The 100 Days Mission to End Pandemics
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Engaging, accessible and ultimately optimistic account –BBC Medical Editor Fergus WalshDisease X sets out a game-changing plan for how the world can learn from Covid-19 and be ready for the next pandemic. –Tony Blair, former British Prime MinisterDisease X is a fast-paced, almost real-time account of how international scientists and global public health leaders are preparing the world to be able to contain outbreaks of new and re-emerging infectious diseases before they spawn deadly global contagions like Covid-19.Disease X is the codename given by the World Health Organisation to a pathogen currently unknown to science that could cause havoc to humankind. Emerging infections are sending us multiple warnings that another Disease X is looming.These events are not freak events, but are happening continually, and at an increasing cadence:2002: SARS2004: H5N1 bird flu2009: H1N1 'swine flu'2012: MERS2014: Ebola2015: Zika2019: Covid-19Now: Mpox in Africa and a new H5N1 avian fluWritten by a long-standing ex-Reuters global health and science correspondent, Disease X uses privileged access to the body leading international efforts to control viral outbreaks, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and its CEO, Dr Richard Hatchett. CEPI seed-funded three successful Covid-19 vaccines, including the AstraZeneca and Moderna shots.Weaving in insights from the likes of Bill Gates, Erna Solberg, Jeremy Farrar and Seth Berkley, the book explores the emergence of the novel coronavirus and the deadly crisis it caused. It analyses the responses of global health organisations and experts, including the WHO national governments in Britain, China and the