Scientist who discovered Ebola launches alert: a disease more deadly than Covid-19 is on the way

Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, a scientist behind the discovery of the Ebola disease, says that after Covid-19, humanity may face an even more devastating and deadly disease.

According to this scientist, the future seems more “apocalyptic” than the present with the new coronavirus.

Muyembe Tamfum currently heads the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and warns that more zoonotic diseases, which are transmitted from animals to humans, are in the prognosis of the scientific community.

At the origin of these zoonotic diseases on the horizon are the unsustainable environmental practices that humanity has been adopting. The meat industry, the newspaper describes Daily star generally keeps livestock in closed and unsanitary housing, increasing the likelihood of diseases communicable to humans in settings such as China’s humid markets.

With the environmental destruction that has been gaining space, many species have not survived and small animals such as rats and bats have adapted. I like it? They began to live closer and closer to humans. And this is the perfect environment for zoonotic diseases to thrive.

Doctors in Kinshasa are currently treating a woman with signs of hemorrhagic fever and it is already feared that she is patient zero of “disease X”, a new unknown disease, such as Ebola and Covid.