Tag: pneumonia
The CDC is protecting against bird flu
A bird flu expert said there’s no indication that the virus has adapted itself to spread efficiently between humans and to ” routinely cause severe disease”. “If you develop respiratory infections with bird flu, you can get very…sick with severe pneumonia because the receptors are deep in the lungs,” she added. There have been no reported cases of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the US.
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There has been a surge in pneumonia in China
A study by a University College London’s Computational biologist, Francois Balloux, has found that infections with Mycobacterium pneumoniae, a bacterium that causes pneumonia, are increasing in China. “Since China experienced a far longer and harsher lockdown than essentially any other country on Earth…it was anticipated that those ‘lockdown exit’ waves could be substantial in China,” Balloux said.
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