Day: November 23, 2023

The WHO asks China about pneumonia case spike

Scientists closely watching.. we are all
Nervously on edge

This reporting from the Associated Press:

Chinese officials say they did not detect any “unusual or novel diseases” in the country, the World Health Organization said Thursday, following an official request by the U.N. health agency for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.

WHO cited unspecified media reports and a global infectious disease monitoring service as reporting clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia in children in northern China and formally requested more details from China earlier this week. 

Ireland riots break out after stabbing attack

The world is getting angry

Multiple riots have broken out in Dublin, Ireland, leaving thousands of people enraged after an immigrant, believed to be Algerian, carried out a stabbing attack outside a school that injured three children and two adults.

Sections of the crowd clashed with police, reportedly injuring several officers, and set several police cars and vehicles on fire, while fireworks were thrown into the streets.

Police have detained a man in his 50s for the knife attack. Authorities believe the attack was a “standalone” incident.

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Mysterious pneumonia outbreak leaves China’s hospitals ‘overwhelmed with sick children’

Please no, not again?!

Scientists have raised concern over a mysterious “pneumonia like” illness that has left hospitals in China “overwhelmed with sick children”.

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An alert was issued through ProMed – a large surveillance database which monitors disease outbreaks– warning of an epidemic of “undiagnosed pneumonia” in children.

— Read on www.standard.co.uk/news/world/mysterious-pneumonia-outbreak-china-hospitals-sick-children-b1122117.html

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Taiwanese news website FTV News said that children were presenting to hospitals in Beijing and Liaoning – 500 miles northeast – with symptoms including a high fever and inflammation of the lungs, but no cough. 

A Beijing citizen told the outlet: “Many, many (children) are hospitalised. They don’t cough and have no symptoms. They just have a high temperature and many develop pulmonary nodules.”

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