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We shall hope it dissipates like many other illnesses from the region.
China are saying it is a normal seasonal surge.
Right now it is marked as an unexplained pneumonia and perhaps it is the press latching onto the headline. Prior to the pandemic there were other outbreaks that didn't make headlines but these days it's particularly topical.
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Scientists have raised concern over a mysterious “pneumonia like” illness that has left hospitals in China “overwhelmed with sick children”.
An alert was issued through ProMed – a large surveillance database which monitors disease outbreaks– warning of an epidemic of “undiagnosed pneumonia” in children.
Taiwanese news website FTV News said that children were presenting to hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning – 500 miles northeast – with symptoms including a high fever and inflammation of the lungs, but no cough.
A Beijing citizen told the outlet: “Many, many (children) are hospitalised. They don’t cough and have no symptoms. They just have a high temperature and many develop pulmonary nodules.”
China are saying it is a normal seasonal surge.
Right now it is marked as an unexplained pneumonia and perhaps it is the press latching onto the headline. Prior to the pandemic there were other outbreaks that didn't make headlines but these days it's particularly topical.
China tells WHO no ‘unusual or novel pathogens’ in pneumonia outbreak
Reports that children’s hospitals in Beijing, Liaoning and other cities are ‘overwhelmed with sick children’.
Scientists have raised concern over a mysterious “pneumonia like” illness that has left hospitals in China “overwhelmed with sick children”.
An alert was issued through ProMed – a large surveillance database which monitors disease outbreaks– warning of an epidemic of “undiagnosed pneumonia” in children.
Taiwanese news website FTV News said that children were presenting to hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning – 500 miles northeast – with symptoms including a high fever and inflammation of the lungs, but no cough.
A Beijing citizen told the outlet: “Many, many (children) are hospitalised. They don’t cough and have no symptoms. They just have a high temperature and many develop pulmonary nodules.”
