Deadly new virus ‘could kill millions’

A DEADLY new illness dubbed Disease X has been added to the list of potential global epidemics that could kill millions.

Each year scientists with the World Health Organisation create a list of viruses most likely to break out into a pandemic.

This year, among the familiar Ebola, SARS and Zika is Disease X which, unlike other pathogens, is of unknown cause and cure.

Norwegian scientist and John-arne Rottingen said: “It represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human illness.”