Thailand’s Ministry of Health said, “We are on duty.” “We are reviewing the measures” respiratory diseases As an added precaution,” the Indian assured. Asia is preparing for the possible arrival of pneumonia and other ailments from which China suffers. “Alert but not alarmed” is the formula used these days, which brings back some sensations. The unfortunate winter of 2019. China and the World Health Organization (WHO) insist that the snowballing income is responding to known old pathogens, not new ones; But Asia, unlike the West, errs on the side of extremism and is not badly off.
Taiwan today advised children, the elderly and the sick not to travel to China and to update their vaccinations if they have no other options. The island has distrusted China since it swept under the rug the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic that killed 800 people at the turn of the millennium. Vietnam has requested more information about the outbreak from the WHO and China’s National Center for Disease Prevention and will recommend: global measures if the virus spreads. The southern half of the country is already suffering saturation some hospitals children due to a cocktail of seasonal viruses.
Echoes of Covid
In India, the state’s main health authority has asked all states to assess the tools they have to combat a spike in respiratory diseases: staff, beds, medicines, flu vaccines, oxygen, insulated clothing, detection kits… The country has already made a registry in case. serious increase in deaths Due to the flu, the number increased from seven last year to 53 this year. Thailand recommends wearing masks and frequent hand washing and has increased surveillance at hospitals and tourist sites.
Northern China now has five weeks under extraordinary circumstances wave respiratory diseases and masks are back on public transport. Some medical centers are nearing saturation, photos of hundreds of intubated patients in the waiting room of a hospital in Nanjing (the eastern province of Jiangsu) are circulating on social networks, and the director of a children’s center in Beijing laments that 7,000 patients a day are sick. has greatly exceeded its capacity.
ProMed, a global surveillance system for new diseases, said: “Undiagnosed pneumonia”WHO asked China for additional information to what they had presented at a press conference, and alarm bells began to ring. Such public requests are not common. But the response was quick and clear. The next day, Beijing provided all laboratory results and other necessary data showing that they were accurate, via video conference. known bacteria and virusesand the causes of the wave, not a new pathogen. Experts attribute this to the end of strict covid restrictions a year ago and the current circulation of various viruses. They assure that the three-year policy of closure and quarantine also limited the spread of common pathogens and, now without dams and with the winter cold, created an immunity gap that made people more vulnerable. Some circulating pathogens, such as respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) or Mycoplasma penumoniae, attack juveniles more than adults, explaining the increase in disease in the former.