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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The World Health Organisation, WHO, has told the planet to be ready for a disease deadlier than COVID-19.<\/p>\n

WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gave the warning on Monday while unveiling a new global scheme to spot and track the most dangerous pathogens during an annual meeting of its 194 member states in Geneva, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

Speaking with the World Health Assembly forum on the threat of a new public health crisis that could not be kicked \u2018down the road\u2019, Tedros stated that despite the darkest days of the pandemic being consigned to history, a doomsday COVID-19 variant with the power to send the world back to square one could still spawn.<\/p>\n

\u201dThe threat of another variant emerging that causes new surges of disease and death remains. And the threat of another pathogen emerging with even deadlier potential remains,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Although, no specific diseases were named. But \u2018Disease X\u2019 \u2014 a place-holder given to a devastating pathogen not yet discovered \u2014 is on the UN agency\u2019s list of pressing threats.<\/p>\n

Dr Tedros\u2019 comments come weeks after WHO declared that COVID-19 was no longer a public health emergency of international concern. Instead, the virus is now considered an \u2018established and ongoing health issue.\u2019<\/p>\n

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