Overnight reports of an emerging large outbreak of pneumonia in China:
- pediatric hospitals in Beijing, Liaoning are reportedly overwhelmed with sick children
- any schools have been suspended
- an alert went out on the ProMed epidemic network – they warn of an unknown “walking pneumonia” without coughing, but high fever and pulmonary nodules
- too early to project whether this could be another pandemic
Beijing and Liaoning are 800 km apart, so the outbreak is not only localized.
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Let’s hope all the affected get well and this thing doesn’t get worse.
The Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID).
- an Internet service to identify unusual health events related to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and toxins affecting humans, animals and plants.
- ProMED is the largest publicly-available system conducting global reporting of infectious disease outbreaks.