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The World Health Organisation has revealed in a statement, a mysterious “Disease X”, capable of causing a global pandemic in the future.

The organisation released a list of diseases it considers posing a high risk to the public due to their potential to spark an epidemic and the limited treatment available to combat them.

This came from an expert committee set up by the organisation, to identify pathogens with the ability to spread and kill many people without any available remedies.

Viruses such as Ebola, Zika, Lassa fever and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which have raged in recent years, are included as serious threats.

However, WHO has included Disease X in its priority list for the first time this year after a review by health experts in February.

Disease X is not a newly discovered threat, but an imaginary virus, which could emerge in the future and cause widespread infection across the globe.

“Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease,” WHO said in a statement.

It added that healthcare officials were planning for a currently unidentified threat now to ensure research and development preparedness.

“History tells us that it is likely the next big outbreak will be something we have not seen before”, John-Arne Rottingen, chief executive of the Research Council of Norway and a scientific adviser to the WHO committee, told The Telegraph of the UK

“It may seem strange to be adding an ‘X’ but the point is to make sure we prepare and plan flexibly in terms of vaccines and diagnostic tests.

“We want to see ‘plug and play’ platforms developed, which will work for any, or a wide number of diseases; systems that will allow us to create countermeasures at speed.”

Rottingen said Disease X could come from a variety of sources, although it was most likely developed through zoonotic transmission, where an infectious disease, which usually afflicted animals, jumped to humans.

Ebola and salmonella infection are both zoonosis, as well as HIV, thought to have been transferred to humans from chimpanzees and monkeys in the early 20th Century.

- 14:49

WHO Warns Against Unknown Disease X

The World Health Organisation has revealed in a statement, a mysterious “Disease X”, capable of causing a global pandemic in the future. ...

The federal government of Nigeria has said that the sack of US Secretary of state, Rex Tillerson by President Donald Trump will not affect Nigeria’s relationship with US.

Tillerson visited Nigeria and met with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, March 12 before he was relieved of his position by President Trump.

Vanguard reports that Geoffrey Onyeama who is the minister of foreign affairs spoke at the end of the federal executive council meeting on Wednesday, March 14 presided over by Professor Yemi Osinbajo.

Onyeama said Tillerson was only representing the US in Nigeria and that his removal would not stop whatever agreement was in place.

He said: “Rex Tillerson sack won’t affect (Nigeria) because government is a continuum as we all know. “When he came it was the United States that was speaking and clearly we expect that with every expectation that everything he has said as regards US/Nigeria relations reflects the position of the United States, reflects the position of the president of the United States, so we don’t see any change happening.”

Ibe Kachikwu who is the minister of state for petroleum who also spoke after the meeting said modular refineries would help curb illegal refining in the Niger Delta region.

He said: “As a seasoned professional I have given all the guidance that is required to fix the refineries, we came into a situation where we don’t have money to fix the refineries we had to raise the money looking into the PPP model, it has to go through a process.

“The technical committee is headed by NNPC, obviously they will submit their report to the board when they complete their work.

So, from a governance and guidance sense, steering point of view, I think that steering is right on track, from a management of the technical aspect of the contracting, that is something we would have to allow NNPC handle, it is not the job of the ministry to superimpose, you got to let them do their work and do it efficiently.

“On modular refineries; modular wasn’t supposed to provide a sufficient solution to your product needs, modulars are on the average between 2000 and 5000 maybe 10,000 at most capacity per refinery.

Your consumption is about 630,000 barrels per day, that is not the essence of modular, what modular was supposed to do for us is provide work within some of these communities where people are busy doing illegal refining.

“It’s not meant to address the refining product gap we have in the country, we are hoping that those gaps will be covered by a mixture of the three or four refineries that government owns currently, Warri, Port Harcourt and Kaduna egg of course the Dangote refinery of 600 barrels.”