CDC and WHO Happenings

On February 6-7, the WHO met for the annual review of their R&D Blueprint list, and they took the unprecedented step of adding the hypothetical "Disease X" to their list of diseases requiring immediate research and investigation. The concept of a "Disease X" is hardly new, so why do you think they just now took the step of making it such a priority?

http://www.who.int/blueprint/priority-diseases/en/
https://via.hypothes.is/http://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/2018prioritization-report.pdf

In their meeting report, the WHO mentioned several aspects of the pathogen that they would focus on:

-Human transmission
-Severity or case fatality rate
-The human/animal interface
-Other factors (including the pathogens geographic range, shared epidemiological and/or genotypic characteristics with pathogens that pose an epidemic threat, the absence of robust protective immunity, a high risk of occupational exposure, or connections with biological weapons programmes)
-Public health context of the affected area
-Potential societal impacts
-Evolutionary potential

A week later, on February 12, CDC official Timothy Cunningham went missing (was murdered) leaving his phone, wallet, car and beloved dog at home. He was a Harvard trained epidemiologist specializing in chronic diseases who had been deployed to respond to public health emergencies including the Ebola virus and the Zika virus. The Atlanta police spread false information at the time of his death, saying that he had recently been denied a promotion (preparing a narrative to claim suicide). The CDC has stated that this was not true, in fact Cunningham had actually been awarded a promotion.

https://www.inverse.com/article/42162-what-happened-to-timothy-cunningham-cdc
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/03/13/the-cdc-says-its-missing-researcher-wasnt-denied-a-promotion-police-say-otherwise/?utm_term=.f533556c95cb
http://abcnews.go.com/US/cdc-missing-worker-recently-received-promotion/story?id=53759793
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/s0312-cunningham.html

On March 21, the CDC appointed Dr. Robert Redfield, co-founder of the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, to become their new director. Throughout his career, he focused on research and health care for people with chronic viral infections and infectious diseases, in particular HIV. He also served in the military and founded the Department of Retroviral Research within the military’s HIV Research Program. He was "controversial for advocating that members of the military with HIV be quarantined. Note that in the last thread, it was mentioned that the Femin virus is most likely a retrovirus.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180321006173/en/Dr.-Robert-Redfield-Co-Founder-Institute-Human-Virology
https://www.vox.com/2018/3/22/17150322/robert-redfield-cdc-director-trump
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/trumps-pick-lead-cdc-both-celebrated-and-censured

Interestingly, observers have noted that the WHO's "Disease X" designation bears a resemblance to the X (female) chromosome:

https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/chromosome/X
http://archive.is/F2zEt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_chromosome
http://archive.is/sb4t9
https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-why-is-the-x-chromosome-so-odd
http://archive.is/Kihsh

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