and then there are the pretenders…
6 days and a fucking wake up
enjoy it
no hate?
wwg1wga?
even Hitler?
love her but can't down shift like that right now!
omg
anon was paralyzed one time at q camp
this 4 foot tall 400 pound nun with a think moustache was giving anon a whore bath when anon woke
anon tried to scream
anon knows she saw the terror in anons eyes
thick
her moustache was thick
kek
Its not funny, Dan!
tricknowlogy!
anon had bled mentally for days when meme then anon passed out
you ain't right, anon
BECAUSE ANON KNEW YOU WOULD MAKE THE WILLIS MEMES IF ANON DIDN'T!
kek!
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Anonymous ID: v3eCc2tY No. 148022342
My signatures all reference upcoming events about to drop if this hasn't been caught on.
Snow White
GODFATHER III
Q
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Nov 05, 2017 1:31:00 AM EDT
Anonymous ID: v3eCc2tY No. 148023976
Ten days.
Darkness.
Scare tactics (MSM).
D's falling.
R's walk-away/removed.
SA US > Asia → EU
Disinformation is real.
Distractions are necessary.
Focus was US today while real happening in SA under same context (military control, martial law, missile strike (rogue) etc).
Necessary.
POTUS' Twitter attack (see above).
Important.
Why is this relevant?
What was the last Tweet by POTUS prior to SA?
Why is this relevant?
SA (1), US (2), Asia (3), EU (4).
Where is POTUS?
Why is this relevant?
Military operations.
Operators in US.
Snow White
The Great Awakening
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Nov 05, 2017 2:17:24 AM EST
Anonymous ID: cS8cMPVQ No. 148033178
What happened in SA will happen here, Asia, and EU.
Keep digging and keep organizing the info into graphics (critical).
God bless.
Hillary & Saudi Arabia
Snow White
GODFATHER III
Q
is this where you put the "BOOM" part?
US Tracks New Strain of Covid-19 8 19 2023
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday that it was tracking a new, highly mutated lineage of the virus that causes COVID-19, Reuters reported.
The lineage is named BA.2.86, and has been detected in the United States, Denmark and Israel, the CDC said in a post on messaging platform X (formerly Twitter).
“As we learn more about BA.2.86, CDC’s advice on protecting yourself from COVID-19 remains the same,” the agency said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) earlier on Thursday said in a post on X that it had classified BA.2.86 as a “variant under monitoring” due to the large number of mutations it carries.
https://english.aawsat.com/varieties/4495201-us-tracks-new-strain-covid-19
Highly mutated COVID variant BA.2.86 has been detected in the U.S. Why the CDC and WHO are monitoring it 8 18 2023
The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are tracking a newly identified, highly mutated strain of COVID experts warn could be the next big leap in viral evolution—if the variant takes off.
The WHO on Thursday announced that it had declared BA.2.86—formerly referred to as BA.X and dubbed “Pirola” by variant trackers, after an asteroid—a “variant under monitoring,” the lowest of three levels of alert.
“High flying” variants EG.5, XBB.1.5, and XBB.1.6 have been designated as “variants of interest,” of greater concern. And only Omicron persists as a “variant of concern,” the highest level of alert.
https://fortune.com/well/2023/08/18/ba286-bax-highly-mutated-covid-omicron-strain-detected-united-states-pirola-pi-rho-world-health-organization/
CDC, WHO tracking new COVID-19 variant; highly mutated strain found in US 8 18 2023
(NEXSTAR) – The World Health Organization added a new lineage of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to its Variants Under Monitoring (VUM) category on Thursday, citing a large number of mutations that “warrants attention.”
The lineage, named BA.2.86, has already been identified in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Other cases have been identified in Denmark and Israel.
“More data are needed to understand this #COVID19 variant and the extent of its spread, but the number of mutations warrants attention,” WHO wrote in a message posted to X on Thursday.
“WHO will update countries and the public as we learn more.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/4158861-cdc-who-tracking-new-covid-19-variant-highly-mutated-strain-found-in-us/
New Covid variant causing concern among scientists detected in London 8 18 2023
It is unclear whether BA.2.86 causes more severe disease but its detection in several countries has put scientists on alert
A new Covid variant that is causing concern among scientists due to its large number of mutations has been detected in London.
The variant, named BA.2.86, has been detected through genetic sequencing, although only a handful of such sequences have so far been reported.
The first was reported in Israel, with the variant since being detected in Denmark and the US.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) confirmed on Friday that the variant had been detected in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/18/new-covid-variant-ba286-causing-concern-among-scientists-detected-in-london
Disease X is coming. Is Ireland ready for the next pandemic? 8 12 2023
Ireland may be almost as unprepared today for the next pandemic as it was before Covid-19. In light of growing concern over “disease X”, The Sunday Times…
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/disease-x-is-coming-is-ireland-ready-for-the-next-pandemic-ml98tr3vb
What is Disease X? UK Scientists Developing Vaccines in Response to Next Possible Enigmatic Pandemic Threat 8 11 2023
A team of scientists in UK is reportedly developing vaccine for Disease X that has been kept in the list of nine priority diseases by WHO.
https://www.ibtimes.sg/what-disease-x-uk-scientists-developing-vaccines-response-next-possible-enigmatic-pandemic-71290
Why Is UK Research Focused on a Vaccine to Prevent a New Pandemic from “Disease X”? 8 11 2023
Meanwhile, distrust in public health experts has clearly grown as covid vaccine sales plunge.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/why-is-uk-research-focused-on-a-vaccine-to-prevent-a-new-pandemic-from-disease-x/
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-02-06a
Removing the Viral Threat: Two Months to Stop Pandemic X from Taking Hold
DARPA aims to develop an integrated end-to-end platform that uses nucleic acid sequences to halt the spread of viral infections in sixty days or less
2017
Over the past several years, DARPA-funded researchers have pioneered RNA vaccine technology, a medical countermeasure against infectious diseases that uses coded genetic constructs to
stimulate production of viral proteins in the body, which in turn can trigger a protective antibody response. As a follow-on effort, DARPA funded research into genetic constructs that can directly
stimulate production of antibodies in the body.1,2 DARPA is now launching the Pandemic Prevention Platform (P3) program, aimed at developing that foundational work into an entire system capable
of halting the spread of any viral disease outbreak before it can escalate to pandemic status. Such a capability would offer a stark contrast to the state of the art for developing and deploying traditional
vaccines—a process that does not deliver treatments to patients until months, years, or even decades after a viral threat emerges.
“DARPA’s goal is to create a technology platform that can place a protective treatment into health providers’ hands within 60 days of a pathogen being identified,
and have that treatment induce protection in patients within three days of administration. We need to be able to move at this speed considering how quickly outbreaks can get out of control,” said Matt Hepburn,
the P3 Program Manager. “The technology needs to work on any viral disease, whether it’s one humans have faced before or not.”
Recent outbreaks of viral infectious diseases such as Zika, H1N1 influenza, and Ebola have cast into sharp relief the inability of the global health system to rapidly contain the spread of
a disease using existing tools and procedures. State-of-the-art medical countermeasures typically take many months or even years to develop, produce, distribute, and administer.
These solutions often arrive too late—if at all—and in quantities too small to respond to emerging threats. In contrast, the envisioned P3 platform would cut response time to weeks and stay within the window of relevance for containing an outbreak.
Key to this undertaking are nucleic-acid-based technologies—those that are centered on DNA and RNA—including some developed under DARPA’s Autonomous Diagnostics to Enable Prevention and Therapeutics (ADEPT) program.
Using these tools, scientists can identify protective antibodies from recovering patients and then, through a biological version of reverse engineering, manufacture genetic constructs that, when delivered,
can instruct an individual’s body to produce similar protective antibodies. Significant quantities of these nucleic acid “blueprints” can be rapidly manufactured compared to state-of-the-art antibody production methods.
What is required now are breakthroughs in three other technology areas to bridge those past DARPA achievements and overcome the remaining bottlenecks that hinder rapid response to pandemic threats. The P3 program will pursue innovations in those three areas:
Growing virus needed to support evaluation of therapies in laboratory tests;
Subjecting antibodies to rapid rounds of evolution outside of the body to increase their potency beyond that of even the most effective antibodies obtained from infected patients; and
Developing means of efficiently delivering nucleic-acid-based protective treatments, since the technologies used to administer conventional vaccines do not readily translate.
Achieving and integrating breakthroughs in all of these areas will require choreographed cooperation among researchers and engineers specializing in such areas as immunology, microbiology, virology, medical infectious diseases,
molecular biology, and medical countermeasure product development and manufacturing.
DARPA-funded teams will be required to demonstrate their integrated platforms in five simulations during the planned four-year program; they will initially test their platforms using pathogens of their choice,
but ultimately they will test using DARPA-selected pathogens, including two demonstrations in which the identity of the pathogen will remain opaque to the teams until the 60-day clock starts.
To ensure the developed platforms can produce a quality product with a viable pathway for regulatory review, each team will be required to complete a Phase I clinical safety trial before the end of the program.
A benefit of the nucleic-acid-based approach to limiting the spread of infection is that the genetic constructs introduced to the body would be processed quickly and would not integrate into an individual’s genome.
Similarly, the antibodies produced in response to the treatment would only be present in the body for weeks to months. This is consistent with DARPA's intent with P3, which is to safely deliver transient immunity to a virus,
halting the spread of disease by creating a firewall.
“Our country asks our military Service members to deploy globally and provide humanitarian assistance in all manner of high-risk environments. We owe it to them to develop the best protections possible,” said Hepburn,
a U.S. Army physician who previously served as Director of Medical Preparedness on the White House National Security Staff. “If we’re successful, DARPA could take viral infectious disease outbreaks off the table as a threat to U.S.
troops and as a driver of global instability.”
To further clarify the P3 program vision, answer questions from potential proposers, and facilitate teaming, DARPA is hosting two identical Proposers Days.
The first will be at the Crown Plaza Tysons Corner McLean Hotel in McLean, Va., on February 22, 2017, and the second at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel San Diego Downtown in San Diego on March 2, 2017.
For registration information, visit: http://www.cvent.com/d/9vqy52.
Full details of the P3 program are included in a Broad Agency Announcement, available at: http://go.usa.gov/x9FbG. Proposal abstracts are due by 12:00 PM ET on March 13, 2017.
Full proposals are due by 5:00 PM ET on May 1, 2017.
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/
US Tracks New Strain of Covid-19 8 19 2023
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday that it was tracking a new, highly mutated lineage of the virus that causes COVID-19, Reuters reported.
The lineage is named BA.2.86, and has been detected in the United States, Denmark and Israel, the CDC said in a post on messaging platform X (formerly Twitter).
“As we learn more about BA.2.86, CDC’s advice on protecting yourself from COVID-19 remains the same,” the agency said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) earlier on Thursday said in a post on X that it had classified BA.2.86 as a “variant under monitoring” due to the large number of mutations it carries.
https://english.aawsat.com/varieties/4495201-us-tracks-new-strain-covid-19
Highly mutated COVID variant BA.2.86 has been detected in the U.S. Why the CDC and WHO are monitoring it 8 18 2023
The World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are tracking a newly identified, highly mutated strain of COVID experts warn could be the next big leap in viral evolution—if the variant takes off.
The WHO on Thursday announced that it had declared BA.2.86—formerly referred to as BA.X and dubbed “Pirola” by variant trackers, after an asteroid—a “variant under monitoring,” the lowest of three levels of alert.
“High flying” variants EG.5, XBB.1.5, and XBB.1.6 have been designated as “variants of interest,” of greater concern. And only Omicron persists as a “variant of concern,” the highest level of alert.
https://fortune.com/well/2023/08/18/ba286-bax-highly-mutated-covid-omicron-strain-detected-united-states-pirola-pi-rho-world-health-organization/
CDC, WHO tracking new COVID-19 variant; highly mutated strain found in US 8 18 2023
(NEXSTAR) – The World Health Organization added a new lineage of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to its Variants Under Monitoring (VUM) category on Thursday, citing a large number of mutations that “warrants attention.”
The lineage, named BA.2.86, has already been identified in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Other cases have been identified in Denmark and Israel.
“More data are needed to understand this #COVID19 variant and the extent of its spread, but the number of mutations warrants attention,” WHO wrote in a message posted to X on Thursday.
“WHO will update countries and the public as we learn more.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/4158861-cdc-who-tracking-new-covid-19-variant-highly-mutated-strain-found-in-us/
New Covid variant causing concern among scientists detected in London 8 18 2023
It is unclear whether BA.2.86 causes more severe disease but its detection in several countries has put scientists on alert
A new Covid variant that is causing concern among scientists due to its large number of mutations has been detected in London.
The variant, named BA.2.86, has been detected through genetic sequencing, although only a handful of such sequences have so far been reported.
The first was reported in Israel, with the variant since being detected in Denmark and the US.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) confirmed on Friday that the variant had been detected in the UK.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/18/new-covid-variant-ba286-causing-concern-among-scientists-detected-in-london
Disease X is coming. Is Ireland ready for the next pandemic? 8 12 2023
Ireland may be almost as unprepared today for the next pandemic as it was before Covid-19. In light of growing concern over “disease X”, The Sunday Times…
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/disease-x-is-coming-is-ireland-ready-for-the-next-pandemic-ml98tr3vb
What is Disease X? UK Scientists Developing Vaccines in Response to Next Possible Enigmatic Pandemic Threat 8 11 2023
A team of scientists in UK is reportedly developing vaccine for Disease X that has been kept in the list of nine priority diseases by WHO.
https://www.ibtimes.sg/what-disease-x-uk-scientists-developing-vaccines-response-next-possible-enigmatic-pandemic-71290
Why Is UK Research Focused on a Vaccine to Prevent a New Pandemic from “Disease X”? 8 11 2023
Meanwhile, distrust in public health experts has clearly grown as covid vaccine sales plunge.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/why-is-uk-research-focused-on-a-vaccine-to-prevent-a-new-pandemic-from-disease-x/
New Lab Designed to Fight Unpredictable 'Disease X' 8 10 2023
Porton Down, one of the most secretive research centers in the United Kingdom, is clear about its goal: to stop the next pandemic.
https://codelist.biz/2023/08/11/new-lab-designed-to-fight-unpredictable-disease-x-health-magazine/
Will Disease X Replace COVID-19 — Precision Vaccinations 8 10 2023
Self-amplifying mRNA vaccine technology receives $3.6 million for use against Disease X.
https://www.precisionvaccinations.com/will-disease-x-replace-covid-19-2023-08-10
What is Disease X? How conspiracy theorists hijacked pandemic preparedness 8 10 2023
After three years immersed in COVID-19 pandemic research, scientists worldwide are working to identify what pathogens co.
https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/aug/10/what-is-disease-x-how-conspiracy-theorists-hijacke/
Warning as Disease X could lead to 'civil unrest and food shortages' 8 10 2023
Disease X could lead to civil unrest and food shortages if it isn't properly dealt with, experts have warned. Earlier this week, the UK announced it had…
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1800847/disease-x-lockdown-coronavirus
A New Government Agency Is Planning for the Mysterious 'Disease X' 8 9 2023
"When diseases emerge … they move very quickly."
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a44763474/new-government-agency-planning-for-mysterious-disease-x/
CEPI partners with Gennova to develop mRNA vax tech against ‘Disease X’ 8 9 2023
According to CEPI, “the threat of Disease X infecting the human population, and spreading quickly around the world, is greater than ever before”
https://www.thestatesman.com/technology/cepi-partners-with-gennova-to-develop-mrna-vax-tech-against-disease-x-1503209788.html
Scientists work to make vaccine for 'Disease X,' the future pandemic 8 8 2023
British scientists are working on a vaccine against Disease X, the hypothetical pathogen that will cause the next pandemic.
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-754066
'Disease X': UK scientists begin developing vaccines against new pandemic Monday 7 August 2023
The work is being carried out at the government's high-security Porton Down laboratory complex in Wiltshire.
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-scientists-begin-work-on-defending-against-new-pandemic-caused-by-disease-x-12934956
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)
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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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).
https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/how-to-guides/pages/vaccine-requirement-accommodations.aspx
Disease X is a placeholder name that was adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) in February 2018 on their shortlist of blueprint priority diseases to represent a hypothetical,
unknown pathogen that could cause a future epidemic.[4][5] The WHO adopted the placeholder name to ensure that their planning was sufficiently flexible to adapt to an unknown pathogen
(e.g., broader vaccines and manufacturing facilities).
[4][6] Director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci stated that the concept of Disease X would encourage WHO projects to focus their research efforts on entire classes of viruses (e.g., flaviviruses),
instead of just individual strains (e.g., zika virus), thus improving WHO capability to respond to unforeseen strains.[7]
In 2020, experts, including some of the WHO's own expert advisors, speculated that COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2 virus strain, met the requirements to be the first Disease X.[1][2][3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_X
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