Disease X: The Looming Threat That Could Rival the Spanish Flu Overview: Kate Bingham, a UK health specialist and former chair of the UK's Vaccine Taskforce, recently spoke with the Daily Mail and delivered a dire warning about a potential worldwide health crisis. Bingham claims that "Disease X," as the World Health Organisation (WHO) has dubbed it, has the potential to start a pandemic that might be much more deadly than COVID-19 and rival the devastation of the Spanish Flu in 1918–1919. Contents: 1. Disease X: The Unknown Pathogen 2. A Potential Global Catastrophe 3. The Unseen Variants 4. Lessons from COVID-19 5. The Perfect Storm Disease X: The Unknown Pathogen Disease X is not a specific virus but rather a placeholder for an unknown pathogen that could lead to a future pandemic. It could be a virus, bacterium, or fungus for which there are no known treatments. While the concept of Disease X is not new and was first mentioned by WHO in 2018, recent events have brought...