'Disease X'-time to act now and prepare for the next pandemic threat

Daniele Mipatrini¹, Chiara Montaldo¹, Barbara Bartolini¹, Giovanni Rezza¹, Sergio Iavicoli¹, Giuseppe Ippolito¹, Alimuddin Zumla^{2

3}, Eskild Petersen^{4

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Italian Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy.
² Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK.
³ NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals, London, UK.
⁴ Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁵ European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases [ESCMID], Basel, Switzerland.
⁶ European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, ESCMID, Task Force for Emerging Infections, Basel, Switzerland.

Editorial

Daniele Mipatrini et al. Eur J Public Health. 2022.

. 2022 Nov 29;32(6):841-842.

doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckac151.

Daniele Mipatrini¹, Chiara Montaldo¹, Barbara Bartolini¹, Giovanni Rezza¹, Sergio Iavicoli¹, Giuseppe Ippolito¹, Alimuddin Zumla^{2

3}, Eskild Petersen^{4

5

6}

¹ Italian Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy.
² Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, London, UK.
³ NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University College London Hospitals, London, UK.
⁴ Faculty of Health Sciences, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.
⁵ European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases [ESCMID], Basel, Switzerland.
⁶ European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, ESCMID, Task Force for Emerging Infections, Basel, Switzerland.

No abstract available

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