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And coming up we'll find out about the preparations for the next pandemic and disease X, as

they're dubbing it, also ahead the link between a noticeably enlarged part of the human brain and obesity

Plus how honey sweetened the deal for an injured cricketer We say COVID was the biggest public health incident for a century, but I don't think any of us think it will be a century before the next.

Those are the words of Professor Dame Jenny Harries, who's the chief executive of the UK's Health Security Agency, who have this week

launched a new laboratory to halt the next pandemic in its tracks, they hope.

It's called the Vaccine Development and Evaluation Center centre and it will be focusing on

tackling current threats like bird flu and superbugs as well as what they're

dubbing disease X the next potential threat to public health. I spoke with Dr B Basm Hallis, who's the lab's deputy

director at the site, important down. With climate change, with urbanization, we do

expect to see more public health emergencies and some of those inevitably will lead to

pandemics.

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