DISEASE X Global pandemic of mystery disease could wipe out humanity, top scientists warn

The Sun UK ^ | March 10, 2018 | Jamie Seidel

[Ciaphas Cain]

THE World Health Organisation keeps a list of dangerous diseases which pose a serious threat of outbreak.

During a high-level meeting of the best medical scientists in the world, they added another to the high-risk list: The ominously named "Disease X".

[BenLurkin]

I’ll risk it.

For the sake of science

[bluejean]

The WHO had a “high-level” (ooooh, sounds ominous) meeting to perpetrate a new snowflake panic event - fear of the unknown. That’s all I got out of it.

[BenLurkin]

Ping

[onedoug]

“De amber lamps. Bring ‘dem.”

[GraceG]

Disease X = Socialism

[VideoDoctor]

I better pick up an extra bottle of Nyquil. /s

[PIF]

Parse this as one will.

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It an emergency! Dire! Send us lots of money! HURRY.

[NormsRevenge]

A veiled plea for more funding.. ?? Perhaps we need a study on that as well.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

This article is total BS.

[zek157]

Something like the 1918 flu could easily take out 5-10% depending on lethality. Not enough ventilators and hospittal beds exist to prevent it. Modern healthcare would ultimately have minimal impact.

I don’t see pandemic coming from an unknown exotic. Just a genetic twist of the flu can do it any given year.

[philetus]

and, of course, Dihydrogen monoxide.

[Steve_Seattle]

Once again, we know-nothing amateurs do the work that real journalists refuse to do, i.e., ask pertinent questions and search for facts and evidence. Too often, if a story fits the MSM narrative, they just run with it uncritically.

[Steve_Seattle]

Regardless of whether Disease X is real, there are plenty of other highly contagious and deadly diseases lurking around the world, and this is one more reason - one of the most important, actually - to control our borders, and it is one that doesn’t get enough attention. I think its a winning argument with pretty much everyone other than the most strident open-borders freaks.

[Sicon]

[familyop]

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! RUN!

[vetvetdoug]

SARS emerged and gave us a view of a major disease that is a significant threat. It was handled quickly and isolated effectively. SARS had the potential to become a serious pandemic with horrific rates of morbidity and mortality.

[discostu]

Or not.

[MayflowerMadam]

That’s funny. Looks like a must-miss
movie!

[MayflowerMadam]

Right. My husband is a Physicist. Although his doctorate isn’t in Astronomy he did study it at Berkeley, so I get why scientists believe there is a planet there.

The way I understand it, it’s like the definition of “faith” in the Bible, i.e., “the evidence of things not seen.”

[txhurl]

Translation: CDC is not sure which pathogen Tim Cunningham made off with.