Rare Diseases 'Disease X': World Economic Forum creating contingency plan for infectious virus outbreak WEF attendees say they will discuss the hypothetical virus in order to prepare properly for it ...

World leaders gathered at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday to discuss Disease X, a hypothetical virus 20 times deadlier than COVID-19.

World Economic Forum, Preparing for Disease X archived Jan. 11 Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, X post , Jan. 17, 2024 World Health Organization, Accelerating R&D processes , accessed Jan. 17, 2023 ...

World leaders and experts will gather on Wednesday at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss "Disease X" and the threats that another pandemic could pose.

Four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, participants at the World Economic Forum discussed mechanisms to control and contain the next global pandemic.

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called on countries to sign the health organization’s pandemic treaty so the world can prepare for a placeholder virus called “Disease X." ...

A hypothetical virus dubbed Disease X has world leaders convening at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland this week to discuss how to prevent the threat of another cataclysmic pandemic.. Tedros ...

The World Economic Forum in Davos is still happening, for now. A final decision on whether to cancel the event — which drew roughly 3,000 people before the pandemic — will be made by Jan. 6 ...