{"id":5318,"date":"2023-11-22T07:43:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2023-11-22T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:43:12","slug":"mystery-child-pneumonia-outbreak-reported-in-china-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/11\/22\/mystery-child-pneumonia-outbreak-reported-in-china-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery child pneumonia outbreak reported in China hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/global-health\/science-and-disease\/china-disease-children-hospitals-pneumonia\/\">Telegraph<\/a> Alert issued over reported epidemic of &#8216;undiagnosed pneumonia&#8217; among Chinese children. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese hospitals have been \u201coverwhelmed with sick children\u201d as an outbreak of pneumonia escalates in cities across the country, including Beijing, according to reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ProMed \u2013 a large, publicly available surveillance system which monitors human and animal disease outbreaks worldwide \u2013 issued a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/promedmail.org\/promed-post\/?id=8713261\">notification late<\/a>&nbsp;on Tuesday detailing a reported epidemic of \u201cundiagnosed pneumonia\u201d in children.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a ProMed alert in late December 2019 that brought a mystery virus later named Sars-Cov-2 to the attention of many doctors and scientists, including senior officials at the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest post, based on a report from the Taiwanese outlet&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftvnews.com.tw\/news\/detail\/2023B21I19M1\">FTV News<\/a>, said that hospitals in the capital Beijing and Liaoning \u2013 almost 500 miles northeast \u2013 were struggling amid an influx of children sick with pneumonia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany, many are hospitalised,\u201d Mr Wei, a Beijing citizen, told FTV News. \u201cThey don\u2019t cough and have no symptoms. They just have a high temperature (fever) and many develop pulmonary nodules.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph Alert issued over reported epidemic of &#8216;undiagnosed pneumonia&#8217; among Chinese children. Chinese hospitals have been \u201coverwhelmed with sick children\u201d as an outbreak of pneumonia escalates in cities across the country, including Beijing, according to reports. 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