France – World – What is “Disease X”, the topic of discussion at the Davos summit that is shaking the complosphere

A mysterious name linked to an unknown disease… a cocktail that did not fail to please conspiracy circles on social networks. The starting point: the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland where a roundtable was held this Wednesday “Prepare for illness“

On the networks, countless publications accuse world leaders of planning the next pandemic or wanting to hide the damage of vaccines. Especially from Florian Philippot, president of Les Patriotes party. He confiscated the subject he condemned.So revealing“

“Disease X has been considered a ‘future epidemic’ by the WHO for many years. Moreover, WHO boss will be at this roundtable! In Devosian parlance ‘prepare’ means: create fear, ‘mRNA vaccines’ and prepare passes with them! What do they do? Please circulate and be warned!

” he wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

Several posts with similar accents follow each other. In particular we can read: “Mega scary news in the middle of the Davos forum where we announce a disease X (sic!) 20 times more deadly…“;”Disease X: Probably to hide the effects of the injection, I’m almost certain.“or”A little reminder: A secret lab in the United Kingdom is making vaccines against Covid variants and ‘Disease X’.“

A theoretical illness to prepare better

But what is this famous pathology? It was added to the WHO’s list of priority diseases and pathogens for research and development in 2018, along with, for example, Covid-19, the Zika virus and Ebola. A non-exhaustive list that “Does not indicate the possible causes of the next epidemic

“, refers to the WHO.

Above all, this famous “the disease“It does not exist, but only in theory. It is a fictitious virus, conceived by the WHO in order to best prepare health systems for the emergence of a disease threatening to humans. “Disease X” therefore designates a potential epidemic”.The pathogen that causes the human disease is not yet known“, WHO continues.

This pathology is completely hypothetical at the moment but the WHO is preparing for the possibility of its appearance. According to researchers, this very deadly disease for humans may be zoonotic (transmitted from animals to humans). In 2022, the World Health Organization estimated the number of unknown viruses at risk for humans to be between 631,000 and 827,000. And, among them, there may be “disease X”.

This Wednesday’s roundtable brought together World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Brazil’s Minister of Health Nicia Trindade Lima and the chairman of the board of directors of AstraZeneca Laboratories. They were discussing how to prepare for the possible spread of such a virus around the world.