The evidence that the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is showing signs of a deadly new “Disease X” does not mean that something is threatening humanity. Zvezda TV channel was told about this by a Russian virologist, Doctor of Biological Sciences Alexey Agranovsky .
“We need to study this and keep in mind, allocate funds for such work, but I see no danger,” the scientist added, noting that he considers the latest publications on this topic an attempt to “make a sensation from scratch.” >
Deputy Director of the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology Rospotrebnadzor Alexander Gorelov also believes that the available data do not yet indicate a new dangerous disease. “I think it is premature to fear a new pandemic,” RIA Novosti quotes him as RIA Novosti . >
The case of a patient described in the DRC with early symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, whose tests gave a negative result for all known infections, Gorelov attributed to possible hemorrhagic and allergic vasculitis, as well as non-infectious diseases, congenital fragility of blood vessels and the manifestation of autoimmune diseases.
On December 31, microbiologist Jean-Jacques Muembe-Tamphum, one of the first to detect the Ebola virus, said that one of his patients had early symptoms of hemorrhagic fever, while her tests for Ebola virus and other known diseases showed negative results. He believes that a sick woman can become zero patient infected with the new virus. He named the hypothetical infection “Disease X”. The disease is thought to be as contagious as the coronavirus, with deaths from infection reaching 50 to 90 percent of Ebola.