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What is ‘Disease X,’ the disease COVID researchers say could be the next pandemic?
Updated: Jun. 21, 2023, 6:39 a.m.|Published: Jun. 21, 2023, 5:30 a.m.
Researchers at the World Health Organization say that "Disease X" — a placeholder for an unknown pathogen that causes human infections — might cause the next pandemic. (NIAID-RML via AP, File)AP
By Katherine Rodriguez | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) list of diseases that could cause the next pandemic includes the ominous “Disease X.”
The pathogen “Disease X” is a new disease agent unknown to medical science that likely does not have any treatments or vaccines.
Researchers have to prepare for the unknown when it starts to spread.
“You cannot prevent an unknown pathogen from evolving into one that could lead to a pandemic,” Dr. Sandra Adams, a biology professor and virologist at Montclair State University, told NJ Advance Media.
However, researchers can use the knowledge they have gained to fight against pandemics.
“You can, however, use what we learned to combat the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic,” she added. The “availability of vaccines worldwide to prevent deaths and serious illness” and “mitigation strategies to reduce the spread” of COVID-19 “until vaccines were developed” were crucial in preventing the most recent pandemic from becoming much worse.
Most researchers believe the next “Disease X” will come from animals before infecting humans.
“If a ‘Disease X’ pathogen does evolve, it will likely be from a zoonotic RNA virus,” Adams said. “This means an RNA virus that resides in an animal will develop mutations that will allow it to infect human hosts.”
But they have not ruled out other sources, such as laboratory accidents or incidences of bioterrorism.
The WHO started using the term “Disease X” in 2018. It last used the term as COVID-19′s original name when the virus first began spreading across China.
“The COVID-19 pandemic was not the first to wreak havoc on the world and it will not be the last,” the authors of a 2021 article from the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology wrote. “Thus, we need to prepare for the next outbreak as soon as possible.”
Adams had a more positive outlook on the fate of “Disease X.”
“Hopefully, we will take the knowledge gained from battling SARS-CoV-2 to prevent ‘Disease X pathogen’ from becoming the next pandemic,” Adams said.
https://www.nj.com/healthfit/2023/06/what-is-disease-x-the-disease-covid-researchers-say-could-be-the-next-pandemic.html
What is ‘Disease X’? COVID experts warn it could cause deadlier pandemic
By Marc Lallanilla May 24, 2023 5:03pm Updated
The World Health Organization keeps a short list of “priority diseases” that could cause the next deadly pandemic.
Most of the diseases are already known to us — Ebola, SARS and Zika made the cut — but the final entry has the terrifying name “Disease X.”
The term Disease X is used by the WHO as a placeholder to describe a disease that’s unknown to medical science as a cause of human infections.
And as a new disease agent — whether it’s a virus, a bacterium, a fungus or other agent — there likely won’t be any vaccines or few, if any, treatments available.
“This isn’t the stuff of science fiction,” Dr. Richard Hatchett, of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, told the Telegraph.
“This is a scenario we have to prepare for. This is Disease X.”
The WHO coined the term Disease X in 2018.
One year later, as COVID-19 began to spread across China, the world witnessed a deadly pandemic caused by a new virus — a Disease X had emerged.
The head of the World Health Organization makes a speech warning of the next pandemic.
The next pandemic ‘even deadlier’ than COVID is coming, warns WHO
“It is not an exaggeration to say that there is potential of a Disease X event just around the corner,”
Dr. Pranab Chatterjee, researcher at the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, told the National Post.
“The recent spate of H5N1 bird flu cases in Cambodia is just a case in point,” Chatterjee added.
Some public health experts believe the next Disease X will be zoonotic, meaning it will originate in wild or domestic animals, then spill over to infect humans.
Ebola, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 were zoonotic outbreaks.
However, there are other sources of diseases and bioterrorism could be the cause of the next pandemic.
“The possibility of an engineered pandemic pathogen also cannot be ignored,” said the authors of a 2021 article in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
“The release of such pathogens, either through laboratory accidents or as an act of bioterrorism, might lead to a disastrous Disease X as well and has been remarked as a global catastrophic risk,” the authors added.
Another possible source could be “zombie” viruses that have been locked in permafrost or other frozen landscapes for centuries, but are released by a warming climate.
The other priority diseases on the WHO list include Marburg virus, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Lassa fever, Nipah and henipaviral diseases, Rift Valley fever and Middle East respiratory syndrome.
To prevent and combat an outbreak of Disease X, medical experts worldwide are clamoring for an increase in funds to support the surveillance of, and research into, potential pandemic agents.
“The COVID-19 pandemic was not the first to wreak havoc on the world and it will not be the last,” wrote the authors of the Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology article.
“Thus, we need to prepare for the next outbreak as soon as possible.”
https://nypost.com/2023/05/24/what-is-disease-x-covid-experts-warn-it-could-cause-deadlier-pandemic/
Disease X: A hidden but inevitable creeping danger
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Disease X: A hidden but inevitable creeping danger
Muhammad Junaid Tahir, MBBS, 1 Imaduddin Sawal, MBBS, 2 Mohammad Yasir Essar, MBBS, 3 Abdul Jabbar, MPhil, 4 Irfan Ullah, MBBS, 5 and Ali Ahmed, PhD 6
To the Editor—An old adage says, “Prevention is better than cure.” Nothing exemplifies this idea better than “Disease X.”
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease.”1
Richard Hatchett, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), said about Disease X, “It might sound like science fiction, but Disease X is something we must prepare for.”2
In a list of diseases that the WHO considers high priority in terms of research and development, Disease X occupies a spot among diseases such as Ebola, Zika, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).1
Unexpected outbreaks of infectious disease (Disease X) have repeatedly rocked the medical confidence and have taken the medical world by surprise.3
Some experts have even commented that COVID-19, caused by severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), met the standards to be considered the first Disease X,4
while some authors have called Zika a Disease X.5 However, one unfortunate possibility is that COVID-19 and other recent pandemics might have been milder versions of what will eventually be the most prominent Disease X.
Disease X is supposed to be caused by a “pathogen X.”
Such a pathogen is expected to be a zoonosis, most likely an RNA virus, emerging from an area where the right mix of risk factors highly promotes the risk for sustained transmission.6
The WHO has been criticized for underreacting on pandemics such as the 2014 Ebola pandemic,7
and as an organization with limited funding and weak political power, the WHO usually fails when it comes to timely and strong acts to reduce the spread of transmissible diseases.8
A study that aimed at figuring out where the responsibility lies for the 2014 Ebola outbreak also concluded that while the WHO might have been partly to blame, it’s also the lack of cooperation from governments and delayed funding aggravates the situation.7
Scientists have also commented that although the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the world, as soon as it disappears into the background, healthcare systems will remain the same.
Politicians might use the weak recovering economy due to the pandemic as a reason to delay funding for epidemic preparation, as a result failing to produce timely effective measures.8
Similarly, while emerging zoonotic pathogens are a threat that needs to be monitored, the possibility of an engineered pandemic pathogen also cannot be ignored.9
The release of such pathogens, either through laboratory accidents or as an act of bioterrorism, might lead to a disastrous Disease X as well and has been remarked as a global catastrophic risk.10
There is a dire need to seriously fund the surveillance of, research into, and treatment of emerging potential pandemic agents that could cause Disease X.8 Despite the grim situation, steps can be taken to stop Disease X and to reduce the spread and damage of Disease X by properly and preemptively preparing for it. (1)
We need to develop international guidelines to control bioterrorism. Bioterrorism attacks could also result in an epidemic, for example, if Ebola or Lassa viruses were used as biological agents. (2)
Advice of the academics should be sought in a timely way without any political involvement. (3)
Immediate and appropriate travel restrictions and airport screening will need to be implemented to contain the spread of pathogen X across borders. (4)
The world’s scientists, clinicians, and infectious disease experts must act collaboratively to investigate, control, and eliminate the disease in a timely way. (5)
Widespread testing and aggressive contact tracing can effectively contain the outbreak. (6) Timely investments can be made to accelerate the development, availability, and approval of medical countermeasures (like diagnostics, vaccines, and clinical trials) required before and during the pandemic. (7)
Disease X: A hidden but inevitable creeping danger
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Active surveillance of virus laboratories is needed to avoid a potential leak of a new virus.
A One Health approach has also been proposed that provides a complete way to address the underlying issues for the spread of Disease X: bridging institutional gaps, defining priority risk areas and pathogens, and emphasizing supposed risk factors for subsequent events involving emerging and re-emerging infectious disease pathogens.11
The COVID-19 pandemic was not the first to wreak havoc on the world and it will not be the last. Thus, we need to prepare for the next outbreak as soon as possible.
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Disease X: science fiction or a very real and frightening threat? The Telegraph website. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/must-work-together-prevent-disease-x/. Accessed June 1, 2021.
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REQUEST FOR A RELIGIOUS EXCEPTION TO THE COVID-19 VACCINATION REQUIREMENT
Government-wide policy requires all Federal employees as defined in 5 U.S.C. § 2105 to be vaccinated against COVID-19, with exceptions
only as required by law. In certain circumstances, Federal law may entitle a Federal employee who has a religious objection to the COVID-19
vaccination requirement to an exception from that requirement, in which case the employee will be required to comply with alternative health
and safety protocols.
To be eligible for a possible exception, you must first establish that your refusal to be vaccinated is based upon a sincere belief that is
religious in nature. A refusal to be vaccinated does not qualify for an exception if it is based upon personal preference, concerns about the
possible effects of the vaccine, or political opinions.
The Department of Homeland Security is committed to respecting the legal protections for religious liberty. In order to request a religious
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Sincerely Held or Suddenly Held Religious Exemptions to Vaccination?
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The statistics for COVID-19 are staggering. The World Health Organization reports that as of January 2022, there have been more than 300 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 (303,169,398 cases as of January 9, 2022) and more than 5.4 million deaths from COVID-19 (5,479,804 deaths as of January 9, 2022). Within just the United States, there have been almost 60 million confirmed cases (59,848,908 as of January 9, 2022) and more than 800,000 deaths (836,603 deaths as of January 9, 2022). Numbers continue to rise each day.
Several vaccines for COVID-19 are available, although they are not distributed fairly around the globe. But as of January 2022, more than 9 billion vaccine doses have been administered globally (9,118,223,397 vaccine doses administered as of January 5, 2022). And within the United States, almost half a billion vaccine doses have been administered (485,275,895 vaccine doses administered as of December 23, 2021).
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How to Handle an Employee's Request for a Medical or Religious Accommodation to a Vaccine Requirement
Many employers require employees to receive vaccinations to reduce the spread of communicable diseases in the workplace. Employer-required flu vaccinations have been a common practice for years and the COVID-19 pandemic further brought mandatory vaccination into the spotlight. Employers who want to require employees to take the vaccine should know that federal law allows employees to ask to be exempted from the requirement due to medical or religious reasons.
Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified applicants and employees with a disability unless the employer can demonstrate that doing so creates an undue hardship to the employer or poses a direct threat to the safety of the employee or others in the workplace.
Employers also have an obligation to accommodate an employee’s sincerely held religious belief under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (Title VII), unless the accommodation creates an undue hardship. A sincerely held religious belief can include an employee’s religious-based objection to vaccinations.
This guide takes you through the steps to handle a current employee’s accommodation request to be exempt from the employer’s vaccination requirement(s).
October 11, 2022 | Press Release | Religious Freedom
PaxtonJoins Brief on Behalf of Airmen Seeking a Religious Exemption from Forced Covid-19 Vaccinations
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Attorney General Paxton has joined a Kentucky-led amicus brief filed in the Cincinnati-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, seeking judicial protection for members of the Air Force who are being coerced to take the Covid-19 vaccine against their will and in violation of their religious beliefs. A district court previously granted a narrow preliminary injunction protecting the Airmen seeking religious exemptions. The coalition is now asking the Sixth Circuit to affirm that decision.
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/paxton-joins-brief-behalf-airmen-seeking-religious-exemption-forced-covid-19-vaccinations
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MISSING IN ACTION! Where is the Governor of Texas on his Attorney General’s Impeachment?
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So this is the RINO who is responsible for the Impeachment of a just re-Elected Attorney General of Texas who has done an outstanding job? What is our Country coming to?
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Texas House of Representatives Speaker Dade Phelan was either very drunk last night or suffering from a medical condition.
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The RINO Speaker of the House of Texas, Dade Phelan, who is barely a Republican at all and failed the test on voter integrity, wants to impeach one of the most hard working and effective Attorney Generals in the United States, Ken Paxton, who just won re-election with a large number of American Patriots strongly voting for him. You would think that any issue would have been fully adjudicated by the voters of Texas, especially when that vote was so conclusive….
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….I love Texas, won it twice in landslides, and watched as many other friends, including Ken Paxton, came along with me. Hopefully Republicans in the Texas House will agree that this is a very unfair process that should not be allowed to happen or proceed—I will fight you if it does. It is the Radical Left Democrats, RINOS, and Criminals that never stop. ELECTION INTERFERENCE! Free Ken Paxton, let them wait for the next election!
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Republicans accuse Catholic Charities of breaking the law in its border response
Kevin Clarke December 15, 2022
Catholic Charities USA officials pushed back strongly against allegations from Republican House of Representatives members that its humanitarian responses to the U.S. border crisis were potentially criminal acts.
In a statement released on Dec. 15, C.C.U.S.A. said those accusations were “both fallacious and factually inaccurate. Our life-saving humanitarian work neither violates federal laws nor endangers communities.”
“The ministry of care provided to migrants by Catholic Charities has been ongoing, across multiple administrations, since our founding in 1910,” the agency said.
“To care for people who are at-risk, including vulnerable people on the move, is a part of the fabric of the global Catholic Church and is mandated by the gospel.”
https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2022/12/15/border-crisis-republicans-catholic-charities-244359
Catholic Charities Under Siege
by Kristine Christlieb • ChurchMilitant.com • December 17, 2022
House Republicans and TX bearing down hard
The months-long surge of illegal immigrants on America's southern border has gone beyond crisis mode, and Catholic Charities has been at the center of it.
Church Militant's Kristine Christlieb briefs us on how the Catholic nonprofit may be profiting illegally from the migration catastrophe.
As Church Militant and the Lepanto Institute have been reporting for years, illegal immigration is a cash cow for nonprofit giant Catholic Charities.
Four Republican members of Congress plus the state of Texas are hot on the charity's trail, both claiming some of its immigration activities may be illegal.
Wednesday, in a letter addressed to the organization's Virginia headquarters, Congressmen Lance Gooden and Jake Ellzey of Texas, Andy Biggs of Arizona and Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin ordered the charity to "preserve all information related to any expenditures submitted for reimbursement from the federal government related to migrants encountered at the southern border."
The Congressmen promise an investigation, saying, "Catholic Charities is violating federal law and regulations, placing migrants and American communities at risk, and subjecting local communities to unreasonable burdens."
https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/catholic-charities-under-siege
Catholic immigrant advocates reject claims of facilitating illegal crossings
By John Lavenburg Dec 17, 2022
NEW YORK – Immigrant advocacy organizations in Texas say they have not yet been contacted by state Attorney General Ken Paxton after he pledged to launch an investigation this week, at the request of the governor, into the alleged role of non-governmental organizations in illegal border crossings.
Joan Rosenhauer, the executive director of Jesuit Refugee Service, said in a statement to Crux that “accusations like this can create a false narrative, which can be damaging, about the work NGOs are doing at the border and ultimately cause harm to asylum-seekers and organizations serving them.”
The same day Abbott called for an investigation, Catholic Charities USA received a letter from four House representatives requiring it to “preserve all information related to any expenditures submitted for reimbursement from the federal government related to migrants encountered at the southern border.”
The letter is signed by Republican House representatives Lance Gooden of Texas, Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin, Jake Ellzey of Texas, and Andy Biggs of Arizona.
They allege in the letter that border NGOs “profit off of exploiting [U.S.] immigration laws,” and fuel the rise of migrants crossing the border.
Catholic Charities USA denied the allegations.
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-the-usa/2022/12/catholic-immigrant-advocates-reject-claims-of-facilitating-illegal-crossings
Abbott accuses NGOs of illegal activity on the border; Paxton to investigate
Hogan Gore Austin American-Statesman Dec 19, 2022
“In light of these reports, I am calling on the Texas Attorney General’s Office to initiate an investigation into the role of NGOs in planning and facilitating the illegal transportation of illegal immigrants across our borders,” Abbott said, adding that he is ready to craft legislative solutions aimed at solving the border crisis and the role of NGOs that Paxton’s office proposes.
Paxton swiftly replied to Abbott’s call saying he will launch the investigation, and pledging to take action against organizations found violating the law. He called what’s happening at the southern border “an invasion,” and placed the majority of the blame on the Biden administration.
“The Biden Administration bears the responsibility for the accompanying rise in crime, cartel activity, and lethal drugs like fentanyl flooding into communities throughout our nation,” Paxton said. “Some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may be aiding and abetting this invasion.”
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2022/12/19/paxton-agrees-to-investigate-ngos-working-on-the-border-in-response-to-the-governors-request/69731864007/
AG Paxton Investigates Texas Bar Foundation for Facilitating Mass Influx of Illegal Aliens
May 06, 2022 | Press Release | Immigration
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has opened an investigation into the Texas Bar Foundation for its possibly aiding and abetting the mass influx of illegal aliens. The investigation is based on credible complaints filed by U.S. Congressman Troy Nehls (TX-22) and members of the public.
The Texas Bar Foundation is alleged to have knowingly given donations to entities that encourage, participate in, and fund illegal immigration at the Texas-Mexico border, and potentially using taxpayer dollars received from the State Bar of Texas, which appoints the Foundation’s trustees. If true, this is likely an improper use of charitable funds because the funds are diverted from their intended—and potentially unlawful—purpose.
The Attorney General is granted broad powers under the Texas Constitution and by statute to investigate charities to ensure they are operating for the public benefit and in compliance with state law.
“Unfortunately, at the very time that our state is facing an unprecedented border crisis and our brave men and women are serving Texas in Operation Lone Star, it appears that the liberal State Bar’s handpicked cronies are misusing charitable funds to make the situation even worse,” stated Attorney General Paxton, “I will not let this illegal behavior continue any further. Thank you to Congressman Nehls and other concerned citizens for bringing this to my attention.”
https://texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/ag-paxton-investigates-texas-bar-foundation-facilitating-mass-influx-illegal-aliens
AG Paxton Files Amicus Brief in Texas Supreme Court Defending Religious Liberty
August 25, 2020 | Press Release | Religious Liberty
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an amicus brief in the Texas Supreme Court urging it to protect the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lubbock’s First Amendment rights to be free from state courts interfering with church doctrine and governance. By allowing a Catholic cleric’s defamation claim against the Diocese of Lubbock to proceed, the State’s brief argues, the lower court failed to give proper respect to the Diocese’s autonomy.
“Defending our religious liberty is one of my top priorities,” said Attorney General Paxton. “I will continue to fight for church autonomy and ensure that religious institutions are free from government interference. A church should not be subject to legal sanction for confronting serious societal problems, like sexual abuse, when matters of church governance or church doctrine are at issue.”
The case involves a decision by all the Roman Catholic dioceses in Texas to release the names of clergy who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor.
The dioceses released these accusations as part of a Church-wide policy of transparency and accountability for addressing sexual abuse and alleged sexual abuse by clergy.
The Diocese of Lubbock determined that an ordained Deacon of the Catholic Church had been credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor female with mental disabilities on two separate occasions.
The Deacon sued the Diocese of Lubbock for defamation because it released his name –along with other clergy who had been credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor—on the Diocese’s website.
The trial court concluded that the First Amendment prohibits Texas courts from adjudicating the claim but the court of appeals disagreed, forcing the Diocese to file its petition with the Texas Supreme Court.
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/ag-paxton-files-amicus-brief-texas-supreme-court-defending-religious-liberty
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