Health Ministry on the alert for 'Disease X', says Lukanisman

SHAH ALAM: The Health Ministry is on high alert for any possible existence of the hypothetical "Disease X" in the country, says Deputy Minister Lukanisman Awang Sauni.

He said that the preparations were based on the experience of dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic and other infections such as Nipah virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), despite the fact that the disease had not yet been discovered.