According to one UK expert, Disease X, the new pandemic, is more dangerous than COVID-19 and could take 50 million lives.

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The next pandemic could take 50 million lives, claimed Dame Kate Bingham, the United Kingdom’s Vaccine Taskforce head.

He added that the disease might already be on its way and that COVID-19 was not particularly deadly

Over 2.5 million people have died worldwide since the coronavirus pandemic started in late 2019.

World Health Organization (WHO) has dubbed the new pandemic as Disease X.

The WHO first used the phrase “Disease X” in 2018, a year before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out,

and has since been updating the list of priority diseases that could spark the next catastrophic pandemic, including Ebola, SARS, and Zika, according to Times Now.

The global health agency website states that Disease X “represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease.”

It can be an entirely novel virus, bacteria, or fungus. It might be connected to a zoonotic illness,

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