is this disease the big one, or will it just be another case of hysteria?

does this turn out to be just another scare tactic or does it turn out to be the final attempt to avoid the truth coming out by killing us all?

Any other updates on this? I am not buying the 'he was denied a promotion' and it has anything to do with this. Unless he was going to whistle blow something?

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Missing CDC employee was denied promotion, told neighbor to delete phone number, reports say | Fox News 

A missing employee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was disappointed he didn’t receive a promotion and told a Georgia neighbor to delete his phone number shortly before vanishing earlier this month, reports said on Tuesday. 

Timothy Cunningham, an epidemiologist at the CDC, left authorities scavenging for clues after the 35-year-old left work early on Feb. 12 and never returned. Cunningham had called his sister that morning and talked to his supervisor about a promotion he didn’t receive, FOX5 Atlanta reported. He reportedly told several coworkers he was disappointed after not being promoted to be a branch manager. 

"This is an extremely unusual set of circumstances," Atlanta Police Department Major Michael O’Connor said Tuesday. "We deal with missing person cases fairly regularly here. The circumstances on this one, just beyond the fact that he's a CDC employee, but just as a general person are unusual." 

Authorities believe Cunningham made it to his home in Atlanta — but nothing else indicates where he may be now. In the CDC employee’s house, nothing seemed unusual and the residence seemed secured aside from two windows being open, according to O’Connor. 

"The most unusual fact, in this case, is that every single belonging that we are aware of was located in the residence," O'Connor said. "So his keys, cell phone, credit cards, debit cards, wallet, all of his identification, passports – anything you can think of we've been able to locate." 

Cunningham also called out of work sick the two days before the last time he was seen. 

Chris Torry, a neighbor of Cunningham’s, told FOX5 Atlanta the CDC employee made an unusual request a few days before he disappeared. 

"My wife and him swapped phone numbers…[On] Saturday, Tim called over to me from across the way and told me to take his number out of her phone. It seemed a bit strange," Torry recalled. 

O’Connor said there’s no evidence of foul play, however, it couldn't be ruled out. 

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Scientists warn of mysterious and deadly new epidemic called Disease X that could kill millions around the world 

   

An unknown and deadly new illness dubbed Disease X has been added to the list of potential global epidemics that could potentially kills millions. 

Each year scientists with the World Health Organisation (WHO) create a list of the most likely diseases to break out into a worldwide pandemic. 

This year, among the familiar Ebola, SARS, and Zika viruses is the new name of Disease X. 

And unlike the other pathogens, it is not known what causes Disease X or how doctors could try to treat it. 

Researchers said that they added Disease X to the threat list to recognise the fact that the next deadly pandemic could be started by an illness that has not caused any problems before. 

"Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease." 

Norwegian scientist and WHO adviser John-Arne Rottingen said that it was likely the next outbreak would be "something we have not seen before". 

"It may seem strange to be adding an ‘X’ but the point is to make sure we prepare and plan flexibly in terms of vaccines and diagnostic tests," he told The Daily Telegraph. 

Disease X could even be man-made, rather than a fluke of nature. There are growing fears that the use and development of chemical and biological weapons are on the rise. In Syria's bloody civil war chemical bombs have been dropped on civilians on numerous occasions. 

And closer to home, the police have confirmed that a nerve agent, probably created in a lab by state-sponsored scientists as a targeted weapon, was used to attack the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury this week. 

Last year North Korea is believed to have used the nerve agent VX to assassinate the half-brother of dictator Kim Jong-Un in an airport in a Malaysian airport. 

Mr Rottingen said that the man-made viruses and diseases were especially dangerous because humans have not built up any resistance over time to them, leaving them free to sweep across the globe before governments and doctors can catch up.[/size]