{"id":5585,"date":"2023-12-19T20:47:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5585"},"modified":"2024-03-05T14:42:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T20:42:46","slug":"the-real-story-behind-white-lung-pneumonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/12\/19\/the-real-story-behind-white-lung-pneumonia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Story Behind \u2018White Lung Pneumonia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-real-story-behind-white-lung-pneumonia\/\">Scientific American<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts say a pneumonia outbreak among children in Ohio and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/whats-causing-the-mysterious-wave-of-childhood-pneumonia-in-china\/\">a cluster of pneumonia cases in China<\/a>&nbsp;are unrelated, despite some social media posts and tabloid articles that have ambiguously linked the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/respiratory-viruses\/data-research\/dashboard\/snapshot.html\">usual respiratory pathogens<\/a>\u00a0are making their rounds this cold and flu season, yet the specter of the pandemic has left many on alert for the next novel agent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI understand outbreaks in China can make people nervous, but this is not that,\u201d says&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chop.edu\/doctors\/offit-paul-a\">Paul Offit<\/a>, an infectious disease physician at Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia. Although another global illness may emerge in the future, the current pneumonia reports are \u201cnothing to worry about,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many pathogens that circulate in the Northern Hemisphere\u2019s winter and year-round\u2014including flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and now COVID\u2014are far from benign and can lead to pneumonia in some cases. But experts say there is no reason to panic or interpret the current uptick in illnesses as anything other than the typical circulation of respiratory viruses and bacteria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are \u201cjust everyday pathogens that normally increase during the winter having a somewhat early and very assertive increase at the present time,\u201d says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vumc.org\/health-policy\/person\/william-schaffner-md\">William Schaffner<\/a>, an infectious disease physician and a professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. But people are not helpless against these germs, says\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dellmed.utexas.edu\/directory\/rama-thyagarajan\">Rama Thyagarajan<\/a>, an infectious disease and internal medicine physician at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. COVID, the flu and RSV all have vaccines that can reduce the risk of pneumonia, she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-real-story-behind-white-lung-pneumonia\/\">continue breathing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American Experts say a pneumonia outbreak among children in Ohio and&nbsp;a cluster of pneumonia cases in China&nbsp;are unrelated, despite some social media posts and tabloid articles that have ambiguously linked the two. The\u00a0usual respiratory pathogens\u00a0are making their rounds this cold and flu season, yet the specter of the pandemic has left many on alert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5587,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5585\/revisions\/5587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}