the pandemic that will attack humanity in the future, according to an expert

The coronavirus pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on global society because it was not known for a century. However, in times of vaccines and hope, an alert has been turned on as they may attack in the future. epidemics that can even be deadlier than Covid-19., according to experts.

Reflections from John vidal, two-time winner of the award for British environmental journalist of the year, points out that diseases “as contagious as measles, as deadly as Ebola” could still mutate and devastate human populations, he broadcast Mirror.

Vidal says that after speaking with experts around the world who made grim predictions The worst is yet to come, while writing a book that discovers the link between nature and disease.

The specialist urges governments to recognize the threat of a pandemic on a scale like the Black Death, which killed one in three people in Europe in the Middle Ages.

Delia Grace Randolph, co-leader in human and animal health at the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, was one of the experts contacted by Vidal.

“I think we will have a wave of new emerging zoonotic diseases, a mix of old and new, ”Randolph condemned.

The main reason for his reasoning is the destruction of the natural habitat of animals caused by changes in agriculture and food production.

Vidal is extremely concerned and alert that a virus could devastate the world in a matter of weeks, killing tens of millions of people before action is taken.

Environmentalists University College London (UCL) report on the appearance of 335 new and potentially fatal diseases worldwide since 1945, extends Vidal. And among them, more than 200 are zoonoses, viruses, bacteria, parasites, fungi and prions.

To be more specific, Vidal lists other deadly viruses that have been transmitted between species include HIV, Ebola, Lassa fever, Sars, and Covid-19 in China; chagas, machupo and hantavirus in Latin America; or the Seas in Saudi Arabia, also widespread 20Minutes.

And just go through the list, like this one with all the viruses together, to immediately ask a question that you hope will be answered: “When are we really going to wake up to the biggest new threat of our time?” “

“Humanity has changed its relationship with wild and farmed animals, destroying their habitats and cumbersome them, and the process is only accelerating,” says Vidal with the idea of ​​raising awareness.

And he seeks to wake up the population: “If we do not appreciate the gravity of the situation, this current pandemic can only be a precursor of something much more serious still“.

He also notes that the nightmarish scenario governments face is the emergence of a new disease, or a new strain of an older one, which is “as contagious as measles and as deadly as Ebola” .

“Humanity could then face a pandemic much worse than that of Covid-19 and on the scale of the black plague which killed one in three people in Europe in the Middle Ages”, he closed to create an even greater alarm.