Unidentified Pneumonia Outbreak in China: ProMED Raises Alarm

2023-11-22 18:20:00

China still does not know the origin of this new pneumonia.

Different hospitals in Beijingthe capital of China, along with the province of Liaoning, have raised alarm bells following detecting a mysterious outbreak of childhood pneumonia. As highlighted by the Emerging Diseases Monitoring Program (ProMED), the number of people with this disease has been overflowing, causing schools and classes to be at suspension edge.

As ProMED has reported, “first thing in the morning, the Beijing Children’s Hospital It was still packed with parents and children whose children had pneumonia and came to seek treatment. A Beijing citizen said: “Many, many are hospitalized. They don’t cough and have no symptoms. They just have a high fever and many develop lung nodules.”

The situation in the Liaoning Provinceas ProMED indicates, is also serious: “The lobby of the Dalian Children’s Hospital is full of sick children who receive intravenous drips. There are also queues of patients at traditional Chinese medicine hospitals and central hospitals. A staff member at Dalian Central Hospital said: “Patients have to wait in line for 2 hours, and we are all in the emergency department and there are no general outpatient clinics.”

The conclusion reached by the report is that there is “a widespread outbreak of a undiagnosed respiratory disease in several areas of China, as Beijing y Liaoning They are almost 800 km away.” According to ProMED, it is not at all clear when the outbreak began, as they see it as unusual that so many children were affected so quickly.” On the other hand, it is also detailed that “no adult has been affected, which suggests some exposure in schools.”

ProMED, a reliable system with a past marked by Covid

ProMED consists of a surveillance system that comes to monitor outbreaks of both human and animal diseases Worldwide. This past Tuesday he made a statement, detailing that an “undiagnosed pneumonia” in children had emerged in China.

This program was responsible for the alarm sound in December 2019a time when many health workers and researchers focused on a completely unknown virus, which later became known as Sars-Cov-2, the coronavirus.

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