Chinese hospitals are struggling. Personnel at medical facilities across the country are stressed as they keep pace with the high number of patients, especially children, suffering from bacterial pneumonia.
And it seems that this strain of bacterial pneumonia now dubbed White Lung Syndrome is also rearing its ugly head in the United States. Doctors in parts of Massachusetts and Ohio are reporting a spike in child pneumonia cases similar to the outbreak spreading in China.
We take a closer look at the cases in the US, and examine if it has a link to China. Moreover, we also see how this strain is also being detected in other countries and if there’s a larger risk.
White Lung Syndrome outbreak in US
Warren County, in Ohio, has recorded a spike in hospitalisations with children reporting to have the mysterious pneumonia, which has been dubbed as the ‘white lung syndrome’, since August.
According to health officials in Warren County, there have been 142 paediatric cases of the condition. The officials said on Wednesday, “Not only is this above the county average, it also meets the Ohio Department of Health definition of an outbreak.”
Meanwhile, in western Massachusetts, physicians are seeing “a whole lot” of walking pneumonia, a milder form of the lung condition, which is being caused by a mixture of bacterial and viral infections.
The average age of the affected children is eight, with the youngest being three-years-old. Health officials have noted that the most common symptoms associated with the outbreak of “white lung syndrome” are a cough, fever and fatigue.
The US has recorded an alarming spike in pneumonia cases, echoing a similar surge in China.
Officials have noted that neither outbreak is being caused by a novel pathogen and not all of the pneumonia cases are being caused by the same infection. Experts say a mixture of several seasonal bacterial and viral bugs are hitting at once, putting pressure on hospitals.
Some medical experts opine that children’s immunity has been weakened by lockdowns, mask-wearing and school closures during the pandemic — leaving them more vulnerable to seasonal illnesses.
Dr Scott Roberts, an infectious diseases expert at Yale School of Medicine, Connecticut, was one of those who believed that the cases were linked to weakened immunity in children. He told DailyMail.com: “This is probably a recurrence of known pathogens that are hitting us a bit harder because of low immunity to them.”
Reacting to the situation, Warren County Health District said in a statement, “As we approach the holiday season, when many of us will be gathering together with family and friends, please remember to take necessary precautions to protect your health.
“Wash your hands, cover your cough, stay home when ill and stay up to date on vaccines.”
When questioned about the outbreak, a source at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was quoted as saying that nationally, “nothing is out of the ordinary.”
“Nothing is flagging out of the ordinary, but we are continuing to monitor,” he said.
Dr Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland told DailyMail, “I would caution against extrapolating one Ohio county to a country of 330 million people.”
‘White lung syndrome’ outbreak across the world
Prior to the US, the Netherlands and Denmark also said they were recording mysterious spikes in pneumonia cases, many of which are being attributed in part to mycoplasma.
According to the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), 80 out of every 100,000 children between age 5 and 15 were treated for pneumonia last week. Similarly, cases among those in the age group between ages 4 and under were also on the rise, jumping from 124 to 145 per 100,000.
Danish health chiefs have also noted that pneumonia cases have reached ‘epidemic’ levels. Denmark’s Statens Serum Institut (SSI) revealed rates have tripled over the past five weeks and warned more kids will be struck down this winter.
Sweden, Switzerland and Singapore have also recorded more than 100 cases each from April through September, according to a study published last week in The Lancet Microbe.
China’s neighbouring countries like Taiwan, Nepal and India have also sounded an alert over the pneumonia cases, with authorities stepping up vigilance.
A man carries a child as they leave a children’s hospital in Beijing. Chinese officials say they did not detect any “unusual or novel diseases” in the country, the World Health Organization said, following an official request by the UN health agency for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.
‘White Lung Syndrome cases’ and China
Over the past fortnight, hospitals Beijing and other megacities in China are overflowing with children suffering pneumonia or similar severe ailments. Earlier called ‘walking pneumonia’ because it wasn’t serious enough to land you in hospital, parents have been rushing their little ones to medical facilities with this ailment.
Doctors have noted that microbe causing the surge in hospitalisation of children is Mycoplasma pneumoniae, which causes M pneumoniae pneumonia, or MPP. Discovered in 1938, the microbe was believed for decades to be a virus because of its lack of a cell membrane and tiny size, although in fact it is an atypical bacterium. These unusual characteristics makes it invulnerable to most antibiotics (which typically work by destroying the cell membrane).
The surge in cases also prompted a reaction from the Chinese authorities. The Chinese health ministry spokesperson Mi Feng was quoted as saying that efforts were underway to bolster healthcare provisions. Additionally, the recommendation to wear masks and maintain social distancing was also made.
Commenting on the same, Maria Van Kerkhove, acting director of the WHO department of epidemic and pandemic preparedness and prevention, said the rise in respiratory illness was in line with “what most countries dealt with a year or two ago”. [FP]
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More proof that vaccines are bad for you: Getting vaccinated makes you MORE likely to infect others
Pro-vaccine propaganda makes it seem as though the purported benefits of inoculation are irrefutable, but research continues to demonstrate that vaccines aren’t nearly as safe or effective as Big Pharma wants you to believe. While the pharmaceutical industry and their puppets declare their precious shots are infallible, studies show that vaccines don’t just fail to produce immunity — they can actually encourage the spread of disease, too. In fact, there are over 600 studies which highlight the many failures of vaccines.
Under current vaccine dogma, any research which indicates vaccine inefficacy or vaccine damage is “fake news.” Medical tyranny is soaring to new heights, with social media giants like Facebook declaring a war against health freedom and quashing the spread of dissenting information. Anyone who breaks away from the “party line” is now subject to censorship, character assassination and public shaming.
It is no wonder that people are now slowly waking up to the truth that conventional opinions on vaccines are based on industry-funded lies, and nothing more.
Vaccines spread disease, research shows
As a new report recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America reveals, vaccination can substantially increase the spread of disease. As sources explain, the team of researchers found that influenza carriers exhale significant amounts of viral influenza. In fact, simply exhaling is a more “effective” route of spreading influenza than sneezing — so even if you aren’t symptomatic, you are indeed spreading the virus.
This fact becomes far more chilling when combined with the researchers other finding: Vaccinated people shed over six times the amount of infectious flu virus than non-vaccinated individuals. The team reported that there was “6.3 (95% CI 1.9–21.5) times more aerosol shedding among cases with vaccination in the current and previous season compared with having no vaccination in those two seasons.”
As sources contend, these findings indicate that flu vaccination may not just be ineffective, but actually harmful in terms of spreading disease. Rather than preventing illness, it appears that flu inoculations contribute to the spread of influenza and may actually contribute to the onset of disease. Indeed, flu-vaccinated people spread 630 percent more viral particulate than their unadulterated peers.
Mike Adams, founder of Natural News and creator of Brighteon.com, contends further:
This means — prepare yourself for this realization — that the most responsible way to avoid infecting other people is to AVOID being vaccinated with flu shots.
People are receive flu shots [sic], in other words, are irresponsible spreaders of the flu. They’re the ones making other people sick, just as we’ve observed for years.
https://health.news/2019-03-15-getting-vaccinated-makes-you-more-likely-to-infect-others.html
Yemen and Iran: Upholding Muslim honor and supporting Palestinians
TEHRAN – Yemen is a country that’s been grappling with war and siege since 2015. As part of Saudi Arabia’s denigrating campaign, anyone in the country, except for ousted President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi and his small group of protégés, have been unjustly portrayed as uncultured and underdeveloped individuals with little to contribute to their nation and the region.
Yemen’s history over the past few centuries has been rife with recurrent struggles against colonialism. From their subjugation under the Ottomans and the British to disputes over control of their oil fields in the Al-Jawf Province, Yemenis have persistently fought for sovereignty over their ancestral land and its resources.
The most recent quest for Yemeni independence commenced in 2014, when citizens staged a popular uprising against the Saudi-supported government of Mansur Hadi. Eager to establish a self-governing state free from foreign influences, their efforts culminated in the creation of the Ansarullah Resistance Movement.
Subsequently, Saudi Arabia along with Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Sudan launched an invasion on the country to bring back the unpopular government of Mansour Hadi. The coalition was largely backed by the U.S., as well as Israel.
When members of the Ansarullah movement were at the pinnacle of their fight against the Saudi-led invasion, they resembled a small militia group that had no air force or navy. Pictures captured of Yemeni military operations showed some of the Ansarullah movement’s fighters lacking the most basic equipment needed to win a military conflict. Some of the fighters had to stand against barrages of fire barefoot, while some others were missing one or two limbs.
Nonetheless, Yemenis eventually managed to take control of their country’s destiny. The Ansarullah movement now governs the capital Sana’a and large swathes of territory. Even though the war is technically not over yet, due to ongoing talks with the Saudi side, the people of Yemen feel like they have been offered a glimpse of autonomy, as their politicians can finally make decisions on their own for the first time in several decades.
It is, however, important to note that Yemen had to pay a heavy price for its newfound freedom. The U.S.-backed war on the country has resulted in the deaths of over 377,000 individuals, directly and indirectly through malnutrition and illness—children account for 70 percent of these fatalities. The UN has consistently raised alarm, characterizing the country’s plight as one of the gravest humanitarian crises in contemporary history.
As Ansarullah consolidates its power in Yemen, Western-backed media and individuals have begun to cast doubt on whether the 2014 revolution in the Arab nation will bear the fruits of the hardships that were endured. But recent developments in the region have reaffirmed for Yemenis that their efforts to reclaim control of their nation were the right decision.
As the West streams its financial and logistical support into Israel and Arab states stay maddeningly impotent in the face of the regime’s crimes in Gaza, Yemen has emerged as the sole Arab force, alongside Lebanon’s Hezbollah, that has come to the Palestinians’ rescue.
Yemen began its support for Gaza by targeting positions inside the occupied territories. Many around the globe might have anticipated such a move by Sana’a. Yemen’s next move, however, deeply stunned the world. The country began targeting Israeli ships in the Red Sea—one of the most crucial transit routes in the global economy. Yemen has seized one Israeli ship and attacked three others, vowing to continue targeting Israeli seacraft until the regime ceases its genocidal assaults on the besieged Gaza Strip.
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