Jan 9, 2025An outbreak of the flu-like virus in China is causing concern, but experts say a Covid-like pandemic is unlikely. ... The disease is already globally present and has been around for decades. This ...
That followed an alert on Tuesday by ProMED, a publicly available reporting system for emerging diseases and outbreaks, saying that hospitals in Beijing and elsewhere in China were "overwhelmed ...
Nov 23, 2023As China experiences its first winter without strict COVID-19 restrictions since the outbreak of the pandemic three years ago, a wave of respiratory illnesses is sweeping across the country.
Nov 27, 2023Within China, the outbreak could be the beginning of a surge of respiratory infections, because children are "often the conduits of disease" to their families, said Pekosz.
Jan 2, 2025China is facing a new virus outbreak, with the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) spreading rapidly, causing flu-like and COVID-19-like symptoms. Hospitals, especially children's hospitals, are overwhelmed.
Nov 28, 2023The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is communicating with health officials in China as fears grow over an outbreak of infectious respiratory diseases that has caused clusters of ...
Jan 4, 2025Recent news reports warn of a viral outbreak of HMPV in China, but U.S. and Chinese officials have yet to confirm this. ... The diseases appear to be less severe and spread with a smaller scale ...
Nov 23, 2023China has systems in place to capture information on trends in influenza, influenza-like illness (ILI), RSV and SARS-CoV-2, pneumonia and other severe acute respiratory infections (SARI), and reports influenza detections to platforms such as the Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS). ... DiseaseOutbreak News; Upsurge of ...
Nov 27, 2023China pneumonia: Everything we know about new outbreak of respiratory illness. Reports from local media say children's hospitals are "overwhelmed" with sick children, but Chinese authorities say a ...
Nov 27, 2023When COVID-19 began spreading across the world in January 2020, China initiated some of the harshest restrictions anywhere in an attempt to prevent outbreaks. Known as the "zero COVID" policies ...