Virus X: what threatens humanity

The world is constantly evolving and improving. Technology overtakes all assumptions and even what was 10 years ago is considered obsolete.

But, unfortunately, development is not limited to technology or fashion. Viruses and diseases also develop. Drugs that easily eliminated the virus last time become ineffective during the next outbreak.

This happens because viruses mutate and adapt to vaccines. New strains are emerging, completely unknown to medicine.

But what about people? What should be prepared for? Will science be able to defeat another virus X, without allowing an epidemic?

The online publication estet-portal.com will help you with these questions .

1. Learning to differentiate between an outbreak, an epidemic and a pandemic

2. The most terrible viruses in the history of mankind

3. Virus X: where to expect the threat

Learning to distinguish between outbreak, epidemic and pandemic

Dangerous diseases occur both in isolated cases and systemically. Depending on the speed of development and the area of ​​​​the lesion, different stages of the virus are distinguished.

An outbreak is a name given to a certain disease that affects more people than the medical profession would have thought. The outbreak takes from several days to several years. Sometimes even one case of a disease is called an outbreak if it is a new disease for the region, or this disease has not manifested itself for a long time.

Epidemic – an extremely fast spread of a viral disease that affects many people. An example of an epidemic is severe acute respiratory syndrome, which claimed the lives of approximately 800 people in 2003.

Pandemic – the global spread of a disease that affects a region, a country, and is capable of spreading to other continents. HIV and AIDS are now classified as pandemics. A pandemic differs from an epidemic in that the area affected and mortality rates are much higher in a pandemic. The pandemic affects the economy of the state and the social indicators of humanity.

The most terrible viruses in the history of mankind

Science, so far, has not revealed the causes of

some diseases. Therefore, scientists predict a new epidemic in the next 40-50 years. In order to guess what might strike the population, one should recall the previous deadly epidemics:

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 - smallpox killed 30,000 people in Athens; •

– the plague of Justinian claimed the lives of about 50 million people in the Middle East, Asia; •

– The plague, which began in China, affected all of Europe. Up to 200 million people died; •

– yellow fever killed 45,000 people in Philadelphia; •

– The biggest plague outbreak of the 20th century struck Manchuria (China). 60 thousand people died. •

history is remembered as the year of the terrible pandemic of the Spanish flu. 30% of the world's population has been affected. That equates to 50-70 million deaths from the flu. •

- known for the polio pandemic that infected 60,000 children in the United States; •

– first became aware of HIV. 25 million people have died from AIDS since the virus was first mentioned. •

– swine flu affected 18,500 thousand people; •

– cholera epidemic claimed the lives of 10 thousand people in Haiti; •

– The Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed 11,300 people. Vaccines for this disease are still no.

Scientists, having analyzed previous situations and modern progress, foresee another outbreak of the epidemic in the next 50 years. However, it is difficult to predict which virus will cause a large-scale threat to humanity.

1. Ebola virus;

2. Marburg virus capable of provoking hemorrhagic fever;

3. rabies virus;

4. Rodent-borne hantaviruses;

5. dengue virus or bone marrow fever;

6. influenza virus, in a new variation;

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. Yellow fever, HIV, TB, West Nile virus, malaria, smallpox are also listed as potential viruses in the new improved version that could cause mass destruction.

was listed for the first time. It means an early unknown disease, the etiology of which can be both natural and laboratory. Virus X is not yet known to scientists, but they foresee its emergence. Everything in our world is developing, which provokes the emergence of new strains of old infections and completely new viruses.

In order to somehow protect yourself from infections, doctors recommend

not neglect vaccination, even if the disease does not seem dangerous. Viruses tend to mutate, so the vaccine you had as a child is outdated. Keep hygiene and strengthen your immune system to the maximum. I would like to believe that medicine and science will come up with another vaccine before the X virus wreaks havoc on the world's population.

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