This is the other virus that is spreading in Wuhan and China ( and it seems America). It is spread by rats, and the UK policy of closing refuse and rrecycling centres, and encouraging fly tipping will obviously help to spread the disease if it gets to the UK. We are entering a Grand Solar Minimum, and this is already leading to an increase in the fertility of vermin like rats and locusts.
Should we be planning for this to spread across the globe?
It's not really that alarming compared to what we are experiencing from COVID 19 which is now infected over 3 million of the population, but if there is finding that this can also infect people faster than COVID and people are going to die after they got infected then it will be investigated and who will study and announce it to the public.