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.
