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Disease X: Protective Measures for Future Pandemics

How does one prepare for a lethal disease that hasn’t yet reared its head?
Disease X: Protective Measures for Future Pandemics
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Jingduan Yang
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, world leaders are discussing future challenges that could be deadlier than COVID-19: Disease X.

In mathematics, X is often used to represent an unknown quantity. In the medical field, Disease X refers to a serious international epidemic that an unknown pathogen may cause.
Jingduan Yang
Jingduan Yang
M.D.
Dr. Jingduan Yang is a board-certified psychiatrist and fifth-generation classical Chinese medicine physician whose work bridges Western psychiatry, functional medicine, and ancient healing traditions. He is the creator of the ACES Model of Health and Medicine—a four-dimensional framework spanning anatomy, chemistry, energy, and spirit—and the author of “Facing East” and “Clinical Acupuncture and Ancient Chinese Medicine.” As a principal founder of the Northern School of Medicine and Health Sciences, he advances whole-person care grounded in science, ethics, and humanity.
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