After detecting an outbreak of undiagnosed childhood pneumonia in northern China, the World Health Organization is closely monitoring the worrying situation.
After the alarming news of a rapidly spreading respiratory disease in children in Chinathe World Health Organization He asked for detailed information about the disease that is pending throughout the country. It’s about a childhood pneumonia outbreak undiagnosed that is expanding in hospitals in different cities, including Beijing.
However, from China they pointed out that no “unusual or new” pathogens detected related to a rebound in respiratory diseases in the north of the country, stated the WHO. In any case, the organization assured that since October they have monitoring the situation and reported a increase in respiratory diseases in the north of the country.
In addition, they reported that they held a “teleconference meeting with the Chinese health authorities in which they provided the requested data on respiratory diseases among children in northern China“, which “indicate an increase in outpatient consultations and hospital admissions for children by pneumonia by Mycoplasma pneumoniae since May, and by RSV, adenovirus and influenza viruses since October”.
China entered “season of high incidence of infectious respiratory diseases”
The National Health Commission reported last week to the press that the rebound in respiratory diseases was due to the lifting of the anticovid restrictions and the circulation of others known pathogens. Added to this is that the Chinese capital is going through a cold wave, with temperatures expected to be well below the 0 ºC on Friday.
Beijing “entered the season of high incidence of infectious respiratory diseases“said the vice director and epidemiological expert of the Beijing disease prevention center, Wang Quanyi, to state media and assured that the city “currently shows a trend of multiple pathogens coexisting,” he said.
From the WHO point out that “some of these increases occurred earlier in the season than had been experienced historically, but were not unexpected given the lifting of COVID-19 restrictionsas was experienced in a similar way in other countries.”
Source: Ambito
