UK scientists have begun developing vaccines as insurance against a new pandemic caused by an unknown 'Disease X'. The work is being done at the government's high-security Porton Down laboratory complex in Wiltshire. SkyNewsThomas has more 👇
UK scientists have begun developing vaccines as an insurance against a new pandemic caused by an unknown"Disease X".WiltshireThey've drawn up a threat list of animal viruses that are capable of infecting humans and could in future spread rapidly around the world.
Which of them will break through and trigger the next pandemic is unknown, which is why it's referred to only as"Disease X." Sky News was escorted around the site, which is run by the UK Health Security Agency, to see the work being done in high-containment labs.Risk of future pandemics 'rising globally'
Professor Dame Jenny Harries, the head of the UKHSA, told Sky News:"What we're trying to do here is ensure that we prepare so that if we have a new Disease X, a new pathogen, we have done as much of that work in advance as possible. "Hopefully we can prevent it [a pandemic]. But if we can't and we have to respond, then we have already started developing vaccines and therapeutics to crack it."Originally, it was focussed onBut scientists at the centre are now involved in monitoring several high-risk pathogens, including bird flu, monkeypox and hantavirus, a disease spread by rodents.
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