{"id":3608,"date":"2023-11-27T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2023-12-02T04:53:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T09:53:01","slug":"pneumonia-outbreak-in-chinese-kids-linked-to-known-pathogens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/pneumonia-outbreak-in-chinese-kids-linked-to-known-pathogens\/","title":{"rendered":"Pneumonia outbreak in Chinese kids linked to known pathogens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The surge in respiratory infections in young children in northern China is being driven primarily by known viral and bacterial infections and not by a novel pathogen, the World Health Organization (WHO) said late last week in an update.<\/p>\n<p>Following a request for data and discussions with Chinese health officials on November&nbsp;23, the WHO said the increase in outpatient consultations and hospital admissions of children in China is linked to increased circulation of pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae\u2014commonly known as \u201cwalking pneumonia\u201d\u2014since May and a more recent uptick in respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), adenovirus, and influenza. That conclusion was based on data from enhanced surveillance systems for respiratory illnesses implemented in China in mid-October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The surge in respiratory infections in young children in northern China is being driven primarily by known viral and bacterial infections and not by a novel pathogen, the World Health Organization (WHO) said late last week in an update.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/pneumonia-outbreak-in-chinese-kids-linked-to-known-pathogens\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pneumonia outbreak in Chinese kids linked to known pathogens<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[666,26,247,77,667,665,213,80,49,668,283],"class_list":["post-3608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-adenovirus","tag-children","tag-china","tag-influenza","tag-mycoplasma-pneumoniae","tag-pneumonia-outbreaks","tag-respiratory-diseases","tag-respiratory-syncytial-virus","tag-rsv","tag-walking-pneumonia","tag-world-health-organization","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}