The UK Health Security Agency identified four virus families—some deadlier than COVID-19—with high pandemic potential. One, ...

The disease has resulted in millions of animals being culled as the close contact with humans poses a great risk.

Those belonged to the families Coronaviridae (including Covid-19 and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome), Orthomyxoviridae (flu), Paramyxoviridae (Nipah virus, measles), and Peribunyaviridae ...