Hamid Al-Sabali, an expert in monitoring and diagnosing epidemics at the "Brizen" Foundation in Brussels, said that the world is facing more epidemics in the coming period.

Al-Sabali explained during an interview with the “With Al-Hakim” program on Al-Jazeera Mubasher that the Covid-19 pandemic is not over yet, noting that the crises that the world is going through at the present time, such as wars, food shortages and the spread of refugees, have removed the pandemic from the global emergency list.

He stressed, "This does not mean the end of the epidemic, as the situation may drift at any moment into a dangerous situation," he said.

Al-Sabali pointed out that science cannot predict the future of epidemics, as the Spanish flu killed a large number of the world’s population, and now the world is coexisting with the influenza virus and there are vaccines for it, as the spread of the new Corona virus has frightened the world, but the question remains whether the world is about to coexist with it or is it Just the calm before the storm?

It is noteworthy that some experts indicated that the world may face about 4,000 new viral outbreaks among living organisms until 2070, due to the enormous biodiversity and the evolution of viruses naturally or in the laboratory, in addition to the high population density and ease of transportation.

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During his interview with Al-Jazeera Mubasher, Al-Sabali indicated that the Kovacs initiative failed to deliver vaccines to poor countries, similar to some African countries whose vaccination rates against Corona did not exceed the level of 10% or 20% at most, after the vaccine-producing companies refused to reduce the price. The initiative forced it to resort to lower quality vaccines.

Where did monkeypox get?

Al-Sabali explained that monkeypox is another example of the African problems that were issued to the world, as the African continent contains 30% of global epidemics, and due to the consequences of Corona and the exhaustion of health systems, we are facing about 50 or 60 viral mutations every year compared to two or three at most before the pandemic.

Al-Sabali explained that the multiplicity of warnings of the emergence of new epidemics is not a lie, a prediction or just a media confusion, as scientists have warned of the emergence of epidemics, and indeed many new viruses have appeared.

And he continued, “Monkeypox” is a non-dangerous virus with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA virus), which means that its genetic material is copied on two opposite strands of DNA with the same information, if damage or distortion occurs in one that helps the other to repair it, but this It does not mean negligence in dealing with him.