“Disease X” was the name given by the World Health Organization (WHO) to a currently unknown pathogen that could emerge in the future and cause a serious international epidemic or pandemi ...

This hypothetical virus that had yet to emerge has been called Disease X. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Disease X was a placeholder name adopted in 2018, for the pathogen that ...

“Until 2020, most people expected Disease X, the next pandemic, would be an influenza virus,” says Lisa F. P. Ng, Executive Director of the A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (ID Labs) in Singapore.