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Disease X vs Covid 19

31st December 2019, there was a day of hope
because the next day is the 1st day of 2020. But this wasn’t the case
for Chinese doctors, a patient came who has an undetected disease. All doctors
were confused because his symptoms were very similar to those of the coronavirus family disease. They already faced the horrible of Severe acute respiratory
syndrome-related coronavirus (SARSr-CoV or SARS-CoV) is a species of coronavirus that infects humans, bats, and certain other mammals, and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a
viral respiratory disease caused by a novel coronavirus (Middle East
respiratory syndrome coronavirus, or MERS‐CoV).
By the time they know the correct information about it, everything that should
have happened is over. That’s not their fault. That’s the danger of a virus.
After a month the virus became a pandemic. It is difficult to say how devastated the virus was. A lot of people thought that this is the disease X but tests showed that this was
not the case before work was over. Disease X is so dangerous than Covid 19.
What is Disease X?
Disease X is a placeholder name that was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in February 2018 on their shortlist of blueprint priority diseases to represent a hypothetical, unknown pathogen that could cause a future epidemic.
Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, the doctor who
discovered Ebola warned that a fresh set of deadly viruses will hit mankind as
he fears Disease X which could be as fast-spreading as the COVID-19, and as
deadly as the Ebola virus, reports CNN.
The
average Ebola case fatality rate is around 50% and Covid-19 has 1-1.5 R
rate, it means an R of 1.5 would see 100
people infect 150, who would, in turn, infect 225, who would infect 338.
According to that disease X can massacre about half of the world. That will
become the darkest period of the earth.
Today it’s probably in a forest somewhere miles from the nearest city, but that can change quickly. It’s estimated that a respiratory virus similar to the flu could reach all major global capitals within 60 days. It’s our expertise and multidisciplinary approach that stands between you and the next pandemic.
Disease X patient zero

Patient zero used to refer to the person identified as the
first carrier of a communicable disease in an outbreak of related cases.
A few months ago, a patient came by sowing early symptoms of hemorrhagic
fever, the patient sits quietly on her bed, wrangling two toddlers desperate to
flee the cell-like hospital room in Ingenta, a remote town in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo (DRC). She was tested for Ebola and even
coronavirus, but all her test reports came out to be negative. This new infection could be more fateful than Ebola and Covid-19, Prof. Tamfum said. His statement is since doing round in world media, raising several questions if this "Disease X" is indeed a news disease. But, you already know the answer by now.
Prof. Tamfum also cautioned that many more zoonotic diseases, specifically those that get transmitted from animals to humans, could arise in the future. He stated that diseases -- namely influenza, rabies, and yellow fever -- have all jumped from animals to humans. These "occurrences are common and could lead to epidemics and pandemics in the future", he said.
That is our luck but one-day disease x will be true. Although it
true, the situation will be so dangerous. So I hope, it won't be so. But we
can’t escape from nature, we should prepare for it always.
Can we discover
There are 1.67 million unknown viruses on this planet. Using our best estimates, anywhere between 631,000 and 827,000 of those have the ability to infect people. Scientists currently know of only 263 viruses that can infect people, which means that we know almost nothing about 99.96 percent of potential pandemic threats.
Other deadliest viral
diseases
Rabies

- Rabies is a vaccine-preventable viral disease
- Fatality rate- Between 95%-100%
- Patient Zero- Rabies has been known since around 2000 BC. The first written record of rabies is in the Mesopotamian Codex of Eshnunna (circa 1930 BC), New World occurring in Boston in 1768
- Symptoms- Fever, fear of water, confusion, excessive salivation, hallucinations, trouble sleeping, paralysis, coma
- Duration- The period between infection and the first symptoms (incubation period) is typically 1–3 months in humans, Death usually occurs 2 to 10 days after first symptoms
- Causes- spread by direct contact
- Treatment- the vaccine was developed in 1885 by Louis Pasteur and Émile Roux
- Death- 56,000 per year
- In 2010, an estimated 26,000 people died from rabies, down from 54,000 in 1990
HIV/AIDS
- In the modern world, the deadliest virus of all may be HIV. "It is still the one that is the biggest killer," said Dr. Amesh Adalja
- Fatality rate- The study, published in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, shows that from 2010 to 2017, the age-adjusted HIV-related death rate (the number of HIV-related deaths per 1,000 people with HIV) fell from 9.1 to 4.7, a decline of 48%.
- Patient Zero- In 1981 in the United States
- Symptoms- In the first few weeks after initial infection people may experience no symptoms or an influenza-like illness including fever, headache, rash, or sore throat.
- Duration- Lifetime
- Causes- HIV can be transmitted via the exchange of a variety of body fluids from infected people, such as blood, breast milk, semen, and vaginal secretions. HIV can also be transmitted from a mother to her child during pregnancy and delivery
- Death- almost 33 million lives
- An estimated 38.0 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2019
- In 2019, 68% of adults and 53% of children living with HIV globally
- Treatment- composed of a combination of 3 or more ARV drugs but Current ART does not cure HIV infection
Dengue

- Fatality rate- Dengue fever is typically a self-limited disease with a mortality rate of less than 1% when detected early and with access to proper medical care. When treated, severe dengue has a mortality rate of 2%-5%, but, when left untreated, the mortality rate is as high as 20%.
- Patient Zero- In 1906, transmission by the Aedes mosquitos was confirmed and This severe form of the disease was first reported in the Philippines in 1953; by the 1970s
- Symptoms- Fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, rash
- Usual onset- 3–14 days after exposure
- Duration- 2–7 days
- Causes- Dengue virus by Aedes mosquitos
- Frequency- 390 million per year
- Deaths- ~40,000 per year
- Treatment- Supportive care, intravenous fluids, blood transfusions
- Up to 40% of the world's population now lives in areas where dengue is endemic.
- Fatality rate- For seasonal influenza, mortality is usually well below 0.1%
- Patient Zero- first influenza pandemic occurred around 6000 BC in China
- Symptoms- Fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle and joint pain, headache, coughing, feeling tired
- Usual onset- One to four days after exposure
- Duration- ~1 week
- Causes- close contact with infected persons and the airborne route (when someone inhales the aerosols produced by an infected person coughing, sneezing, or spitting) and through hand-to-eye, hand-to-nose, or hand-to-mouth transmission, either from contaminated surfaces or from direct personal contact such as a handshake
- Treatment- Neuraminidase inhibitors such as oseltamivir
- Frequency- 3–5 million severe cases per year
- Deaths- Up to 650,000 respiratory deaths per year
- The influenza vaccine is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for high-risk groups.
- The most deadly flu pandemic, sometimes called the Spanish flu, began in 1918 and sickened up to 40% of the world's population, killing an estimated 50 million people.
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