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Future Pandemics: UK scientists begin work on defending against new pandemic caused by 'Disease X'

UK scientists have begun developing vaccines as insurance against a new pandemic caused by an unknown "Disease X". They have drawn up a threat list of animal viruses that are capable of infecting humans and could in the future spread rapidly around the world.

Paste BN' science correspondent Thomas Moore has witnessed the work carried out at the government's high-security Porton Down laboratory complex in Wiltshire.
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