China crosses a wave of respiratory diseasesincluding shoots of pneumoniawhich mainly affect the children. For its part, Europe it’s found on alertgiven that Netherlands and France registered a increase in respiratory infections and evaluate the possibility that it is related to the unknown disease that affects the Asian country.
China is dealing with a increase in respiratory diseases entering its first season of winter complete since lifting the strict restrictions on the Covid-19 in December of last year, with cases between children which seem especially high in northern areas such as Beijing and the province of Liaoningwhere the hospitals They are warning that there is long waits.
For this reason, the Asian country called the surveillancewhile the World Health Organization (WHO) – who asked the Government for data on the disease – stated that no unusual or novel pathogens.
In any case, this Wednesday, the chancellor of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Yisaid that “the recent increase in respiratory diseases in China it’s a common problem that all countries face”, and the Chinese authorities would already have it “under effective control”.
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About the causes of the outbreak, China suggested that the cases were related to the lifting of restrictions due to Covid-19 along with the circulation of pathogens known as mycoplasma pneumoniaea common bacterial infection that typically affects the childrenwhich circulated from May.
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Alert in Europe due to increase in respiratory diseases
Meanwhile, the state agency Amsterdam, Netherlandsreported that -during the week of November 13 to 19- 103 were counted cases of pneumonia every 100 thousand children between 5 and 14 years old. The previous week they had added 83according to him Dutch Institute for Health Services Research (LEVEL, for its acronym in English).
For the moment, it they don’t know the causes of the illness. Although it increases the worry that the situation is related to the outbreak in China.
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China entered a “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
