Peter Daszak - 9/14/19 - “Priority Pathogens incl. Disease X”
2/27/20 - We Knew Disease X Was Coming. It’s Here Now.
We need to stop what drives mass epidemics rather than just respond to individual diseases.
By Peter Daszak
Mr. Daszak is a disease ecologist. nytimes.com/2020/02/27/opi…
“A few years back, Daszak was working with the World Health Organization, plotting out what the next global pandemic could look like, when he and some other scientists came up with the idea of ‘Disease X.’” slate.com/technology/202…
“Disease X would hit this epidemiological sweet spot: It would transmit easily from person to person, and it would be deadly, but not too deadly.” 🤔
5 Major Challenges for Pandemic Prediction & Prevention - Peter Daszak - article is based on a mtg of the IOM Forum on Microbial Threats, Sept 24-25, 2013 and at In-Q-Tel, Oct 2015. Funding provided by USAID-EPT-PREDICT, NIAID, NSF/NIH EEID, core funding from EcoHealth Alliance.
Working on that pandemic “sweet spot”
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