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Scientist who discovered Ebola warns 'Disease X' much deadlier than Covid on the way

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Ebola virus says a future pandemic will likely be "more apocalyptic" than coronavirus. Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum has worked on the frontline of identifying new pathogens since 1976, when as a young researcher he took blood samples from victims of the then-unknown disease that killed almost 90% of patients.Those samples were sent from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to scientists in Belgium and the US, who found a worm-shaped virus in patients' blood that was named after the river Ebola.It's believed the disease, which causes vomiting and haemorrhaging as well as other horrific symptoms, first spread to humans from an animal - possibly a fruit bat.Prof Muyembe now runs the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale.

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