Your children aren’t being targeted by another Chinese bioweapon.
…The condition is being characterized as walking pneumonia, or “white lung”; an infection of the lung that progresses silently, causing pneumonia and lung injury, without any of the usual outward symptoms, such as coughing, fever, et cetera. The responsible pathogen has been, at least tentatively, identified as mycoplasma pneumoniae. The “142 cases” being reported are actually the sum of similar such syndromes – a collection of symptoms – with which primarily children have presented to hospitals, since August this year.
That minor fact has been largely omitted from the breathless fearmongering that is suddenly being splashed across Twitter feeds and news headlines. 142 cases, over three months, adds up to about a case and a half per day. That is not what an outbreak of a new, potentially pandemic infectious disease looks like.
Furthermore, the responsible pathogen being mycoplasma raises several more questions. Mycoplasma is a commensal bacterium; it is a natural, occasional inhabitant of our human microbiome. With a functional immune system keeping it in check, it’s no more dangerous than any of the multitude of other bacteria that naturally reside there.
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