News | Balita | 通讯
Pan-Asiatic States
Estados Pan-Asyatiko
泛亚洲国家
ENGLISH | INGLES | 英语
Qionghai Experiences Pneumonia Surge of Unknown Cause
Pravda Asiatica
April 20th, 2020
QIONGHAI, Hainan, Chinese Confederation, Pan-Asiatic States—Earlier this morning, the National Health Commission (NHC) China Regional Office reported to press outlets a typhoon of pneumonia cases with unknown etiology (unknown cause) detected in Qionghai City, Hainan Province of the Chinese Confederation. As of April 20th 2020, a total of 44 patients with pneumonia of unknown etiology have been reported to the NHC by the state authorities in China. Of the 44 cases reported, 11 are severely ill, while the remaining 33 patients are in stable condition. According to media reports, the concerned market of which all patients had reportedly attended to in the past three weeks at most was closed on April 12th 2020 after a municipal order for environmental sanitation and disinfection.
The causal agent has not yet been identified or confirmed. As of today, leading international agencies, including the World Health Organization, have requested further information from Pan-Asiatic authorities to assess the risk. Federal authorities have reported that all patients are isolated and are receiving treatment in Hainan medical institutions. The clinical signs and symptoms are mainly fever, with a few patients having difficulty in breathing, and chest radiographs showing invasive lesions of both lungs. Two patients have also suffered severe body pain, according to a physician's report.
According to the authorities, some patients were operating dealers or vendors in the Qionghai Seafood Market. Based on the preliminary information from the Chinese investigation team, no evidence of significant human-to-human transmission and no health care worker infections have been reported.
Although further study has been recommended by the National Health Commission's Health Secretary Ngư Tuyết Anh, in a communique to the World Health Organization, she has stated that, based on symptomatic analysis of the subjects, the disease could be linked to a strain of the Influenza A H3N2 virus. Many of the confined patients have suffered symptoms parallel to the 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic.
As before, when the 1968 H3N2 virus had descended from H2N2 through antigenic shift, a genetic process in which genes from multiple subtypes reassorted to form a new virus, the Health Secretary reiterated an unofficial claim from an anonymous Chinese medical think tank that the new Qionghai strain could have undergone an antigenic shift from the previously-eradicated 1968 H3N2 virus.
Based on information provided by national authorities, the NHC's recommendations on public health measures and surveillance of influenza and severe acute respiratory infections still apply. As of today, the NHC does not recommend any specific measures for travellers. In the case of symptoms suggestive of respiratory illness either during or after travel, travellers are encouraged to seek medical attention and share travel history with their healthcare provider.
Health Secretary Ngư Tuyết Anh advises against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on the Pan-Asiatic States based on the current information available on this event, and reassured the public in a press release that the situation in Qionghai remains under control.
The causal agent has not yet been identified or confirmed. As of today, leading international agencies, including the World Health Organization, have requested further information from Pan-Asiatic authorities to assess the risk. Federal authorities have reported that all patients are isolated and are receiving treatment in Hainan medical institutions. The clinical signs and symptoms are mainly fever, with a few patients having difficulty in breathing, and chest radiographs showing invasive lesions of both lungs. Two patients have also suffered severe body pain, according to a physician's report.
According to the authorities, some patients were operating dealers or vendors in the Qionghai Seafood Market. Based on the preliminary information from the Chinese investigation team, no evidence of significant human-to-human transmission and no health care worker infections have been reported.
Although further study has been recommended by the National Health Commission's Health Secretary Ngư Tuyết Anh, in a communique to the World Health Organization, she has stated that, based on symptomatic analysis of the subjects, the disease could be linked to a strain of the Influenza A H3N2 virus. Many of the confined patients have suffered symptoms parallel to the 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic.
As before, when the 1968 H3N2 virus had descended from H2N2 through antigenic shift, a genetic process in which genes from multiple subtypes reassorted to form a new virus, the Health Secretary reiterated an unofficial claim from an anonymous Chinese medical think tank that the new Qionghai strain could have undergone an antigenic shift from the previously-eradicated 1968 H3N2 virus.
Based on information provided by national authorities, the NHC's recommendations on public health measures and surveillance of influenza and severe acute respiratory infections still apply. As of today, the NHC does not recommend any specific measures for travellers. In the case of symptoms suggestive of respiratory illness either during or after travel, travellers are encouraged to seek medical attention and share travel history with their healthcare provider.
Health Secretary Ngư Tuyết Anh advises against the application of any travel or trade restrictions on the Pan-Asiatic States based on the current information available on this event, and reassured the public in a press release that the situation in Qionghai remains under control.
