{"id":19749,"date":"2024-01-25T12:57:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T07:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19749"},"modified":"2025-04-05T19:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T14:09:09","slug":"disease-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/disease-x\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Disease X?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Disease X<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is referred to as a\u00a0hypothetical pathogen or threat that can cause a major pandemic in future.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0could be a new agent, a virus, a bacterium, or a fungus without any known treatment.<\/li>\n<li>The term coined by scientists and the World Health Organization could be any of the 25 families of viruses that have the capability to cause illness in people.<\/li>\n<li>Disease X was included in the WHO\u2019s updated Blueprint list of diseases back in 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists are of the opinion that Disease X could be 20 times more deadly than SARS-Covid virus that caused pandemic recently.<\/li>\n<li>It represents an illness which is currently unknown but could pose a serious microbial threat to humans in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a pandemic?<\/h3>\n<p>A pandemic is an outbreak of infectious disease that occurs over a wide geographical area and that is of high prevalence. A pandemic generally affects a significant proportion of the world\u2019s population, usually over the course of several months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/health\/the-pandemic-treaty-can-help-the-world-brace-for-disease-x-who-director-general-94094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>The pandemic treaty can help the world brace for Disease X: WHO Director-General<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disease X is referred to as a hypothetical pathogen or threat that can cause a major pandemic in future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}