With a foreword written by former British Prime Minister, Sir Tony
Blair, DISEASE X is a must-read, fast-paced, almost-real-time
account of how international scientists and global public health
leaders are preparing the world to be able to contain outbreaks of
new and re-emerging infectious diseases before they spawn deadly
global contagions like Covid-19. DISEASE X is the codename given by
the World Health Organisation to a pathogen currently unknown to
science that could cause havoc to humankind. Emerging infections
are sending us multiple warnings that another Disease X is looming.
We’ve had SARS in 2002, H5N1 bird flu in 2004, H1N1 ‘swine
flu’ in 2009, MERS in 2012, Ebola in 2014, Zika in 2015 and now
COVID-19. These events are not freak events, but are happening
continually, and at an increasing cadence. Written by a
long-standing ex-Reuters global health and science correspondent,
Kate Kelland, DISEASE X uses privileged access to the body leading
international efforts to control viral outbreaks, the Coalition for
Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and its CEO, Dr Richard
Hatchett. CEPI seed-funded three successful COVID vaccines,
including the AstraZeneca and Moderna shots. Weaving in insights
from the likes of Bill Gates, Erna Solberg, Jeremy Farrar and Seth
Berkley, DISEASE X explores the the emergence of the novel
coronavirus and the deadly crisis it caused. It analyses the
responses of global health organisations and experts, including the
WHO; national governments in Britain, China and the USA; COVAX, the
global vaccine allocation facility; pharmaceutical companies; and
leading research scientists. Ultimately, DISEASE X is a story of
hope. It tells of how, throughout the devastation of Covid, science
and human ingenuity have shown that the world can devise intricate
new weapons at breath-taking pace against deadly diseases it has
never encountered before. It also tells how the world’s public
health scientists are embarking on a 100 Days Mission to embed that
scientific progress into a pandemic-busting plan to defuse future
threats from as-yet-unknown pathogens in a little over three
months. This is the 100 Days Mission – backed by the G7 and G20 -
that will see a newly prepared world, one that can move at speed to
snuff out future threats before they become deadly pandemics.
General
Imprint: |
Canbury Press
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2023 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Kate Kelland
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Foreword by: |
Tony Blair
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
206 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-912454-95-2 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-912454-95-5 |
Barcode: |
9781912454952 |
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