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Table 2 WHO’s Blueprint priority diseases

From: The 2017 Oslo conference report on neglected tropical diseases and emerging/re-emerging infectious diseases – focus on populations underserved

 

Zoonosis

Vector

Other

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF)

X

X

 

Ebola virus disease and Marburg virus disease

X

  

Disease Xa

X

X

X

Lassa fever

X

  

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

X

  

Nipah henipaviral diseases

X

  

Rift Valley fever

X

X

 

Zika virus

X

X

 
  1. Note: a “Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease, and so the R&D Blueprint explicitly seeks to enable cross-cutting R&D preparedness that is also relevant for an unknown “Disease X” as far as possible” (http://www.who.int/blueprint/priority-diseases/en/)