The doctor who discovered Ebola: Future Pandemias Can Be Worse Than Coronavirus

Mujemb says new pathogens will appear and is a threat to humanity. As a young scientist, he received the first blood samples from patients with then mysterious diseases that led to bloodshed and death of about 88 percent of patients and 80 percent of hospital staff in the Yamabuk mission when Ebola was first discovered.

Even today, the world must rely on African scientists in Congo and elsewhere as guards who will warn of new diseases. The mujembe of CNN warns of many zoonotic diseases, diseases transmitted from animals to humans, such as yellow fever, various forms of flu, rage, brcelose, and Lyme disease.

Bribery or insects are often hosters of animal disease in humans. HIV, for example, appeared in a species of chimpanzees and SARS, MERCS and COVID-19 passed to people from “reservators” unknown to the animal kingdom.

Mujemb believes that some pandemics in the future may be even worse than the coronobius.

According to research by Mark Woolhouse, a professor of epidemiology of infectious diseases at the University of Edinburgh, three to four new viruses are discovered each year, and most of them come from animals.

Experts believe the increasing number of new viruses is largely the result of environmental destruction and the trade of wild animals. As their natural habitats disappear, animals such as rats, bats, and insects survive where the largest animals are destroyed. Smaller animals can live with humans, and they are suspected to transmit new diseases to humans.

Thus, scientists have linked past Ebola epidemics to human conquests in the rain forest. In a study from 2017, researchers determined that 25 of the 27 Ebola epidemics that broke out along the borders of the rain forests in Central and West Africa from 2001-2014 began in major drilling sites two years ago.

Today, Mujamba heads the Congolese National Institute for Biomedical Research in Kinshasa, which is part of the global early - health warning system.

If pathogen has appeared in Africa, it takes time to spread around the world, he says, explaining that if the virus is discovered over time, Europe and the rest of the world will have time to develop new strategies to fight new viruses.

Scientists believe that zoonotic diseases such as Ebola and Coronavirus spread to humans during the slaughter of wild animals, since an unknown disease can be hidden in any of these animals.