Another deadly pandemic triggered by 'Disease X' could potentially be just around the corner, a leading scientist has suggested.
On Tuesday the UK hit the grim milestone of 100,000 Covid-19 deaths after a year of the pandemic. When Keir Starmer asked Boris Johnson during Prime Minister's Questions yesterday why so many had died, he said the middle of a pandemic was not the time to ask such questions.
Yet according to one infectious disease expert, another pandemic could be just around the corner, meaning the time to act preventively is now.
Mark Woolhouse, professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, said that in 2017, he and some colleagues got the World Health Organisation (WHO) to add something called