hate to say this but it feels like 2020 all over again, overflowing hospitals and thousands of patients with flu-like symptoms. China is facing a new health crisis, a new disease outbreak which looks a lot like the Wuhan virus and as always Beijing is jing is sharing no information. They’re calling it a pneumonia of unknown origin. That’s how Chinese authorities. Have described it Beijing. Says, it has set up systems systems to monitor the outbreak.
If you feel like you’ve heard this before, you have from the same China, some for years back, they’re making it sound like it’s just the flu season.We do hope it’s just that but sadly the picture is still a different story.
This is believed to be from a hospital in China. We cannot verify these pictures, but several videos, like this one are going viral, clearly, there is more to the story. We do not wish to speculate and feed the fear, but. Here is what we know so far.This is not a new disease. Experts say the China is dealing with an outbreak of HPV. That’s the human meta. Nemo, virus hmpv.
This virus has been around for, at least 60 years. It is quite common and easy to catch. So, unlike the Buhan virus this time, they seem to be dealing with a known disease. And yet there are reasone to be worried. The first reason is the scale of the outbreak, it is massive cases have been reported in multiple cities across China. Beijing and inner Mongolia. These five reported the highest number of cases.
But we don’t know about the actual case, load as usual, China has not shared any data, so we don’t know how much worse it could become.The second reason to be worried is the nature of the patients, hmpv attacks, the younger sections of the population, the children and a dollycans, they are the most vulnerable to Contracting this virus, and a large number of patients.
Right now are also children plus treatment is also challenging because just like the Wuhan virus, the HPV is a respiratory disease. That is no drug to treat it. There are no vaccines either, and the symptoms are similar fever cough and shortness of breath. That’s what hmpv patients have in severe cases, they can develop other complications, like bronchitis on ammonia. Offensive care oxygen or even a ventilator again, does the sound familiar to you
We all know what happens when hospitals are overwhelmed. When there are too many patients to treat and not enough resources.When oxygen supplies are about to run out when patients cannot find beds for treatment. Hmpv is not the same as the Wuhan virus, but it can easily wreak havoc on the health system.
China knows this too. AIn fact, its hospitals are already feeling the strain despite that it refuses to come clean about.The outbreak or its scale.It seems to have learned nothing from the last pandemic.It remains in a state of denial.Just look at this story, it came out three days back, the World Health Organization of who made an appeal to Beijing.It is asked China to come clean about the Wuhan virus pandemic, the who has sought data from Beijing.And how did Beijing respond with a denial?On the issue of covid-19 traceability, China has always upheld.
The spirit of scientific openness and transparency as it actively supported participation in the global scientific traceability methods. At the same time, we firmly oppose any form of political manipulation China’s openness and transparency. Have exceeded expectations.
They say they have exceeded expectations.Does the WHU agree with that in 2023. A who official was asked about this, he said, and I quote China’s lack of data.Disclosure is simply in ex inexcusableAnd this is a shop shift.In the standard, the World Health Organization. In the early days of the pandemic, they had praised China’s response to the Wuhan virus. We all know what a disaster, it turned out to be.The world cannot afford a repeat of the same mistake. It must remain vigilant about China’s latest disease outbreak.
