{"id":58924,"date":"2025-01-04T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58924"},"modified":"2025-01-04T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T13:52:12","slug":"china-faces-surge-in-respiratory-illnesses-sparking-outbreak-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/04\/china-faces-surge-in-respiratory-illnesses-sparking-outbreak-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"China Faces Surge in Respiratory Illnesses, Sparking Outbreak Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China is experiencing a sharp rise in respiratory illnesses, fueling concerns over a potential new viral outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on January 4, 2025, indicate overcrowded hospitals and a renewed public reliance on face masks.<\/p>\n<p>Social media is flooded with videos of packed hospital wards, where parents endure long waits with sick children.<\/p>\n<p>Unverified claims also suggest crematoriums and funeral homes are struggling to meet demand, reminiscent of the early COVID-19 outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Local reports link the surge to human metapneumovirus (HMPV), a virus causing cold-like symptoms, though Chinese health authorities have not confirmed this as the source.<\/p>\n<p>This outbreak mirrors the 2022\/23 winter surge of mycoplasma pneumonia, or &#8220;white lung&#8221; disease, which affected children whose immune systems had weakened due to prolonged pandemic lockdowns and school closures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal China is experiencing a sharp rise in respiratory illnesses, fueling concerns over a potential new viral outbreak. Reports on January 4, 2025, indicate overcrowded hospitals and a renewed public reliance on face masks. Social media is flooded with videos of packed hospital wards, where parents endure long waits with sick children. Unverified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58926,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58924\/revisions\/58926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}