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Future Pandemics: New UK vaccine research centre to help scientists prepare for ‘Disease X’

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UK scientists have begun developing vaccines as insurance against a new pandemic caused by an unknown "Disease X".

The work is being carried out at the government's high-security Porton Down laboratory complex in Wiltshire by a team of more than 200 scientists.

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.

Sky News' science correspondent Thomas Moore has witnessed the work being done.

Read more on the story here: https://news.sky.com/story/uk-scientists-begin-work-on-defending-against-new-pandemic-caused-by-disease-x-12934956

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