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WHO's cryptic warning and new virus worse than Covid-19

A doctor demonstrates Rift Valley General Hospital's Covid-19 readiness, March 13, 2020. [Daniel Chege, Standard]

Emerging infectious threats constantly challenge the landscape of global health security.

Recently, two significant developments have drawn much attention to this field: The study of a pangolin coronavirus and the World Health Organisation's (WHO) warning about an imaginary pandemic, called 'Disease X', which is potentially 20 times more severe than Covid-19.

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