Can we find "X Disease" before it's too late?

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This year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has included "disease X" among the diseases that require the most research and development, a pandemic that can be caused by a strain of a contagious virus or a bacterium we do not know that it affects the man.

According to Live Science, experts at the World Health Summit in Berlin warned not to be ready to look for such a disease in its potential animal source or to detect it quickly when it begins to spread.

"Most epidemiological threats, such as Ebola and SARS, come from animals.It makes sense to detect these threats in groups of animals before they spread to other animals." Man, but there is little surveillance of wildlife diseases, "said veterinary pathologist Tracy McNamara, who organized a committee on disease X. A gap between the public health sector and that of the animal health makes it very difficult to identify and respond to the new threat.