Margaret Harris, a WHO official, stated that the increase in common respiratory infections is “common” in the winter and spring, despite worries about the Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) virus. She said the disease’s bacteria are “known ones,” according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The country has seen an increase in some common respiratory diseases. And in the winter, this is completely to be anticipated. “China has a sentinel surveillance system for severe respiratory infections and influenza-like illness,” she said.
The pathogens responsible for these diseases are known, based on data from the Chinese CDC. These include the respiratory syncytial virus, commonly referred to as RSV, the seasonal influenza virus, the human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, and our old acquaintance SARS-CoV-2, which is the virus that causes COVID-19, she said. The WHO representative added that testing for seasonal influenza is a common occurrence.
Seasonal influenza is now by far the most prevalent disease in all of the testing that China’s CDC has recorded. And it’s getting higher. When individuals with flu-like symptoms presented to outpatient and emergency department sentinel sites at the end of December, the test positive rate for influenza was more than 30%, she said.
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