The World Health Organisation ( WHO ) has released the list of pathogens that could trigger the next pandemic . The number of pathogens has grown to more than 30. "The priority pathogens , published in a report on 30 July, were selected for their potential to cause a global public-health emergency in people, such as a pandemic.
This was on the basis of evidence showing that the pathogens were highly transmissible and virulent, and that there was limited access to vaccines and treatments. The WHO’s two previous efforts, in 2017 and 2018, identified roughly a dozen priority pathogens," a Nature report says. More than 200 scientists spent some two years evaluating evidence on 1,652 pathogen species — mostly viruses, and some bacteria — to decide which ones to include on the list.
The new list of pathogens includes influenza A virus, dengue virus and monkeypox virus. It also has several strains of influenza A viruses, including subtype H5, which has recently caused an outbreak in cattle in the United States. Five new bacterial strains have been added, responsible for diseases such as cholera, plague, dysentery, diarrhea, and pneumonia.
Nipah virus , cases of which have been found in India recently, is also there on the list. Priority pathogen and prototype pathogen The UN Health Agency has released the list of priority pathogens, which are those pathogens that have the potential to cause a global health emergency. It has also released a list of prototype pathogens, "which c.