Via FluTrackers, Sharon Sanders posts an unedited Google translation from a long report in the Yangzhou Times: China - "This year's flu is the fiercest in recent years, with a long duration and a wide area of infection.." Excerpt and then a comment:
It is reported that currently there are five major virus rampant, namely, influenza virus, Norovirus, rotavirus, adenovirus, syncytial virus, influenza virus most likely to cause respiratory infections; Norovirus and rotavirus can cause vomiting in children And diarrhea, while adenovirus can cause diarrhea in children. Syncytial virus, it will cause children fever, bronchitis, pneumonia, myocarditis and so on.
Q: Why are so many children more recently?
A: The flu season, and the weather
Chen Xiao analysis, on the one hand, this and the recent weather changes. Dry weather in winter, will stimulate the respiratory tract, leading to the human body to the outside world the resistance of the virus decreased, some time ago the weather is colder, the temperature has picked up these days, a cold and heat, weak immune children are particularly vulnerable to cold; the other It is also the popular season for influenza virus. Both have caused the current peak.
"This year's flu is the fiercest in recent years, with a long duration and a wide area of infection, which have not been experienced in recent years." The reporter interviewed pediatric experts from other hospitals and learned that with the opening of the second child policy, It is also a factor that has dramatically increased the number of outpatient and emergency department visits in pediatrics.
Despite the inevitable garbling of a Google translation from Chinese to English, the full report indicates that Yangzhou hospitals are swamped with sick kids. I'll try to find out if other Chinese cities are reporting similar problems.
