On Monday, the World Health Organization commented on the increase in cases of respiratory diseases recorded in China, causing concern about the possibility of the emergence of a “new disease.”
Acting Director of the Department of Epidemic Preparedness and Prevention at the World Health Organization, Maria Van Kerkhove, said that the increase in cases of respiratory diseases that China is currently witnessing “is not as great as it was before the Corona pandemic.”
The organization’s official confirmed that “no new or unusual pathogens were discovered in recent cases of infection.”
Van Kerkhove explained, “The increase in disease cases appears to be the result of an increase in the number of children who are infected with germs that cause diseases that they had avoided for two years, due to the preventive measures imposed during the Corona pandemic.”
The world looks with concern at the health situation in China, as the city of Wuhan in the center of the country was the cradle of the Corona epidemic in late 2019, and the devastating repercussions it caused on the health and economic situation for years around the world.
The increase in respiratory diseases became a global problem last week, when the World Health Organization asked China to provide more information, pointing to a report issued by the Emerging Diseases Surveillance Program regarding children with pneumonia that had not yet been diagnosed.
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On Sunday, the Chinese Ministry of Health announced that the significant increase in respiratory and chest diseases in the country, which attracted the attention of the World Health Organization, is due to influenza and other causes, not including a new virus.
A spokesman for the National Health Commission said that the recent wave of respiratory infections is due to the interference of common viruses such as influenza virus, rhinovirus, or respiratory syncytial virus, as well as bacteria such as Microplasma pneumoniae, which is the common cause of respiratory infections.
The Ministry called on local authorities to open more fever treatment clinics and strengthen vaccination campaigns for children and the elderly.
2023-11-27 11:12:03
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