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