世衛組織發出警告 致命'X疾病'恐席捲全球

Along with Ebola, Zika and other well-known notorious Diseases, Disease X was recently enlisted by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the killer that is potential to trigger deadly global epidemic in the near future.

近日，世界衛生組織將“X疾病”與埃博拉、寨卡和其他廣爲人知的惡疾一起列爲短期內可能引發全球流行病的致命“殺手”。

"Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease," the WHO said.

世界衛生組織稱：“X疾病代表由使人患病的目前未知的病原體導致的嚴重的全球性流行病。”

It's the first time that the organization puts an entry of unknown disease in its Blueprint to arouse global awareness of health experts and communities.

這是世衛組織首次在其行動方案中加入未知疾病條目，以提高全球健康專家和社區的意識。

According to an analysis, sources of Disease X could be experiments of bio-weapons, animal diseases that can be transmitted to humans - zoonotic diseases in general, and the potential evolution of existing diseases.

一項分析表明，X疾病的來源可能是生化武器實驗、可傳染給人類的動物疾病（通常是人畜共患的疾病），以及現有疾病可能出現的病變。

Actually, the above sources have been unveiled as the causes of some fatal diseases which are well-known now but were mysterious killers when they first appeared, such as Ebola, HIV and even the smallpox virus.

事實上，以上的來源已經被揭露出來是一些致命疾病的起因，這些疾病現在已經廣爲人知，但當它們首次出現時卻是神祕的殺手，比如埃博拉病毒，艾滋病病毒，甚至天花病毒。

The WHO said all the named diseases "pose major public health risks and further research and development is needed, including surveillance and diagnostics."

世界衛生組織稱，所有命名的疾病，“構成了重大公共衛生風險，需要進一步研究和開發，包括監測和診斷。”