{"id":4471,"date":"2023-08-29T19:01:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4471"},"modified":"2023-08-29T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T00:04:00","slug":"disease-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/08\/29\/disease-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Disease X"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.precisionvaccinations.com\/disease-x#google_vignette\">Precision Vaccinations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disease X\u00a0is supposed to be caused by a &#8220;pathogen X&#8221;\u00a0that is expected to be a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/zoonoses\">zoonosis<\/a>, disease, or infection that can be transmitted between humans and animals, most likely an RNA virus, wrote Richard Hatchett, chief executive officer of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (<a href=\"https:\/\/cepi.net\/news_cepi\/preparing-for-the-next-disease-x\/\">CEPI<\/a>).\u00a0According to the World Health Organization (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/activities\/prioritizing-diseases-for-research-and-development-in-emergency-contexts\">WHO<\/a>), Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease.\u00a0Based on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/disease-outbreak-news\/item\/2020-DON229\">announcement<\/a>\u00a0of the WHO\u00a0in 2020, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12250-020-00206-5\">Wuhan pneumonia<\/a>\u00a0caused by an unknown etiology should be recognized as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32060789\/\">first<\/a>\u00a0Disease X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As the world responds to the challenge of a rapidly evolving virus, the need to deliver new, lifesaving tools has never been more urgent,&#8221; said Bill Gates, co-chair of the Gates Foundation, in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/ideas\/media-center\/press-releases\/2022\/01\/gates-foundation-wellcome-pledge-300-million-cepi-covid19-pandemic-response\">press release<\/a>&nbsp;in January 2022.<\/p>\n<!-- <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"OqsbujddS uUsTAwIs  bA \">OqsbujddS uUsTAwIs  bA <\/a> --><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Precision Vaccinations Disease X\u00a0is supposed to be caused by a &#8220;pathogen X&#8221;\u00a0that is expected to be a\u00a0zoonosis, disease, or infection that can be transmitted between humans and animals, most likely an RNA virus, wrote Richard Hatchett, chief executive officer of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI).\u00a0According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Disease X [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4472,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4471\/revisions\/4472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}