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China - Longhu: high incidence of pneumonia in elderly and children - air conditioning, indoor and outdoor temperature main reasons for increase - Sha

Pathfinder

Editor, Senior Moderator
Translation Google

The elderly and children in summer high incidence of pneumonia doctors recommend not facing the air conditioning blowing

2013-07-11 09:11:24 news.longhoo.net

Longhu Recently, the frequent rains, cool weather was supposed to bring comfort, but many people find themselves and everyone around him in a cold strokes, headache, nasal congestion, runny nose, fever and even these day come to the hospital for pneumonia patients also are significantly increased, many of them are elderly and children, the doctor said, the elderly, immunocompromised children, air conditioning, indoor and outdoor temperature is the main reason leading to increase in patients with pneumonia.

Ms. Wang's daughter Wenwen and has been since the holidays at home, the other day the weather is hot, Wenwen only 躲在房间里 activities, because the room is small, the air conditioning vent had been blown against Wenwen. The day before yesterday night, Wenwen suddenly began to cough, but also accompanied by fever. What to eat antipyretics, cough, drink water, do not mend, midnight always coughing. Children can not sleep, Ms. Wang is very worried with her daughter to the hospital for X-ray detected pneumonia, to stay in hospital for a week.

According to City First Hospital Chief Physician Zhang Li introduced, infants less subcutaneous fat, capillary-rich, yet to develop improved body temperature regulation center, adults can not feel the temperature difference, the child was able to clearly feel. Wenwen cold air in the air-conditioned room environment, capillaries, sweat glands hole closed, the sympathetic nervous excitement, visceral vasoconstriction, decreased gastrointestinal motility, weakened immunity, it is very susceptible to pneumonia. Shushi cold and other flu like symptoms, there are nasal congestion, runny nose, fever and other symptoms, but Shushi cold summer special cold, also known as hot-cold. Zhang said that children such as persistent fever in five days or so, if untreated is likely to lead to pneumonia. In addition, the summer also prone to influenza, its rapid onset, severe systemic symptoms, high fever, body aches, mild symptoms such as the nasopharynx. Generally have flu symptoms, it is recommended that you go to the top three hospitals for treatment, and other disease areas separated. She suggested that the elderly and children, summer light diet, avoid spicy foods cold, while maintaining a good attitude, can enhance their resistance; For poor physique, easily repeated cold person, available Folium boiled water to drink, but also isatis other traditional Chinese medicine can be used to prevent colds; You can also use light blue boiled water to drink, can prevent a cold summer Shushi. When you feel uncomfortable and cold symptoms appear Shushi, use Huoxiangzhengqi water or pills, and even served on the 2nd symptoms are not alleviated, should go to regular hospital treatment. Zhang Chen

Source: Nanjing Daily  Edit: Sun Jing
http://news.longhoo.net/nj/njxw/content/2013-07/11/content_10770083.htm
 
Re: China - Longhu: high incidence of pneumonia in elderly and children - air conditioning, indoor and outdoor temperature main reasons for increase - Shantou, Guangdong province

Obviously air conditioning is not the cause of unidentified viral outbreaks throughout China, nor are summer temperatures.

The Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) modalities being promoted by this and many recent official press releases of this ilk are predominately fever medicines that translate specifically to treatments for viral illness in the Western allopathic medical diagnostic criteria. The TCM treatments recommended are not specific to managing temperature drops or increases due to change of indoor / outdoor climate.

Ergo, they know virus is involved, but they are NOT willing to disclose the exact diagnosis?

If some variant of emergent H7N9 is spreading this quickly without similar mortality rates to the intial late Winter / early Spring wave, then we have an entirely different clinical picture now, a potential human adaptation / reassortment event.

Sequences must be provided in order to begin epidemiology validation.

We rely on FT for English translations of Chinese reports, but we do not recall any reports on Guizhou. If any of you find or publish a report concerning Guizhou hospital over-capacity situations (especially Emergency Care or Critical Care), please contact us immediately via FT IM with a link or via Mrs. Sanders. We have a secondary interest in both Liaoning and Xinjiang followed closely by Heilongjiang. Contemporary Encephalitis cases in those 4 provinces may also signal genetic revision.

Geography
Topics
  • Hospital, Over-Capacity
  • Encephalitis, Viral


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Re: China - Longhu: high incidence of pneumonia in elderly and children - air conditioning, indoor and outdoor temperature main reasons for increase - Shantou, Guangdong province

This is not the first time that China public health authorities have blamed air conditioning for an outbreak of respiratory illness. I have lived in Central Florida for 29 years where we live in air conditioning 10 of 12 months in a year. I have never heard of "air conditioning disease". A few of the articles:


China - "Air conditioning disease" causes "recent explosion" of outpatient visits to hospitals with "colds, respiratory disease, fever" in Changchun, Jilin province - July 2010

China - "Air Conditioning"disease "booming" in Shanghai - July 2010

China - Hospitals & Streets Crowded with "Air Conditioning Disease" Patients in Zhong County, Chongqing Municipality in South - July 2010

China - Reports of "Air Conditioning" Disease in Chengdu, Sichuan province - July 2010

China - Hospital Admissions Up for "Air Conditioning Disease" in Taiyuan, Shanxi province - July 2010

China - Recent Admissions "Increased Significantly" Due to "Air Conditioning" Disease in Huaihua, Hunan province - July 2010

China - Rise in emergency room visits by children - symptoms include: cold, fever, diarrhea - "air conditioning disease" blamed - Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - July 2010

China - "Air conditioning pneumonia" with high fever, flu, & pneumonia increases patient load at hospital in Shanghai - July 2010

China - Respiratory Pediatric visits to Medicine Practitioners Up 30% in a week in Fuzhou, Fujian Province - "air conditioning disease" blamed - July 2012

China - Hospital visits surge 10-30% in Shanghai due to pneumonia & respiratory illnesses - "air conditioning" disease blamed - August 2012


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Re: China - Longhu: high incidence of pneumonia in elderly and children - air conditioning, indoor and outdoor temperature main reasons for increase - Shantou, Guangdong province

21 doctors, nurses infected with pneumonia in E China
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-06/14/c_132455785.htm

A month old but I don't remember this being posted nor the outcome of testing.



HEFEI, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-one doctors and nurses in east China's Anhui Province have been hospitalized after being diagnosed with viral pneumonia, local health authorities said Friday.

The medical workers have been quarantined for treatment and none of their infections are critical, according to a statement from the municipal health bureau of the city of Suzhou.

All of the infected work in the department of respiratory care at the General Hospital of the Wanbei Coal-Electricity Group.

One nurse began to show symptoms of fever, headache and coughing on the night of June 5, with the rest exhibiting symptoms soon afterward, the bureau said.

Twenty-one of the department's employees had been diagnosed and hospitalized as of Tuesday, the bureau said, adding that no new cases have been reported since then.

The bureau said tests for viral pneumonia have not yet been completed, although two respiratory experts from another hospital diagnosed them with viral pneumonia.

The Suzhou Disease Prevention and Control Center has taken samples from some the patients.

Feng Lizhong, a publicity official from the provincial health department, said the case represents an ordinary pneumonic infection and is not a public health issue.
 
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Re: China - Longhu: high incidence of pneumonia in elderly and children - air conditioning, indoor and outdoor temperature main reasons for increase - Shantou, Guangdong province

This is not the first time that China public health authorities have blamed air conditioning for an outbreak of respiratory illness. I have lived in Central Florida for 29 years where we live in air conditioning 10 of 12 months in a year. I have never heard of "air conditioning disease". A few of the articles:


China - "Air conditioning disease" causes "recent explosion" of outpatient visits to hospitals with "colds, respiratory disease, fever" in Changchun, Jilin province - July 2010

China - "Air Conditioning"disease "booming" in Shanghai - July 2010

China - Hospitals & Streets Crowded with "Air Conditioning Disease" Patients in Zhong County, Chongqing Municipality in South - July 2010

China - Reports of "Air Conditioning" Disease in Chengdu, Sichuan province - July 2010

China - Hospital Admissions Up for "Air Conditioning Disease" in Taiyuan, Shanxi province - July 2010

China - Recent Admissions "Increased Significantly" Due to "Air Conditioning" Disease in Huaihua, Hunan province - July 2010

China - Rise in emergency room visits by children - symptoms include: cold, fever, diarrhea - "air conditioning disease" blamed - Shenzhen, Guangdong Province - July 2010

China - "Air conditioning pneumonia" with high fever, flu, & pneumonia increases patient load at hospital in Shanghai - July 2010

China - Respiratory Pediatric visits to Medicine Practitioners Up 30% in a week in Fuzhou, Fujian Province - "air conditioning disease" blamed - July 2012

China - Hospital visits surge 10-30% in Shanghai due to pneumonia & respiratory illnesses - "air conditioning" disease blamed - August 2012


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Fantastic summary, Sharon!

China has demonstrated here that central control of perception management is quite efficient and may be employed effectively when an organisation (ZGD) wants to sway an opinion where facts show the opposite of their desired message. The clear evidence is your FluTrackers accumulated list of primary-sourced & fully archived stories that shows the party has everyone on the same page from border to border, north to south and east to west. This active disinformation pogram demonstrates the lack of respect, even open disdain, that the ruling elite of China have for their own people.

In an effort to understand their motive, we evaluated bacterial Legionnaire's as a potential diagnosis because the aetiology is frequently correlated with contaminated air conditioning, but the clinical presentations, progressions (where detailed) and TCM recommendations from the Communist press releases do not correlate with Legionnaires.

Please help us watch for these same types of reports from Guizhou province.



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Re: China - Longhu: high incidence of pneumonia in elderly and children - air conditioning, indoor and outdoor temperature main reasons for increase - Shantou, Guangdong province

Let's Make a Map
for
ACJ Virus

Perhaps with a complete geographic listing of provinces that exhibit "air conditioning July virus" , we might request a bit of Al's expertise toward one of his great maps.

Documenting this costly new disease that appears to be disrupting the healthcare system in China during warm weather will prepare FluTrackers if ACJV begins spreading to other countries. Sharon has us started with her initial listing of many related stories.

Would someone aggregate, de-duplicate and transcribe the province names for any instance in 2013 of this clinical picture? The news stories are here at FluTrackers and are translated to English, so let's put some pins on a map for this potential epidemic!


Related Reading Concerning A DIFFERENT Virus in China

 
Re: China - Longhu: high incidence of pneumonia in elderly and children - air conditioning, indoor and outdoor temperature main reasons for increase - Shantou, Guangdong province

Let's Make a Map
for
ACJ Virus

Perhaps with a complete geographic listing of provinces that exhibit "air conditioning July virus" , we might request a bit of Al's expertise toward one of his great maps.

Documenting this costly new disease that appears to be disrupting the healthcare system in China during warm weather will prepare FluTrackers if ACJV begins spreading to other countries.

Would someone aggregate, de-duplicate and transcribe the province names for any instance in 2013 of this clinical picture? The news stories are here at FluTrackers and are translated to English, so let's put some pins on a map for this potential epidemic!


Related Reading Concerning A DIFFERENT Virus in China


If any of the articles have ACJV case counts or percentages, should we include that in the hospital / province line summary?
 
Re: China - Longhu: high incidence of pneumonia in elderly and children - air conditioning, indoor and outdoor temperature main reasons for increase - Shantou, Guangdong province

Discussion of
Emergent Influenza Commonalities
to
Undisclosed ACJ Virus

Should we begin a brainstorming session to list potential commonalties between known characteristics of Emergent H7N9, known characteristics of other zoonotic Influenza serotypes and the as-yet undisclosed "air conditioning July virus"?

At this point, let's open the conversation and begin listing ideas in preparation of a later category-by-category, rational examination. Free thinking is welcomed as we are attempting to discover something that may be new or may have certain important key designators intentionally hidden or under-reported.

Please "read between the lines" of the news story translations and list your ideas with the full knowledge that many of our initial ideas will later be found outside the pattern. Let's try to collect a large cross-section of ideas for a few days before we start sorting, excluding and synthesising.

If you are an eyewitness or have reliable direct information of these scenarios, we'd be grateful for focusing input. If you are a native Mandarin reader or are skilled in evaluating Mandarin medical reporting, please assist in clarifying context of translation and situational context because we are certainly missing a great deal of important understanding on these stories.

The lack of disclosure has placed us in the unenviable position of speculation and right now more speculation is better than attempting a single correct answer. An idea cannot be examined until that idea is stated.

We've begun a sampling of categories and characteristics. Please feel free to add as much or as little as comes to mind including additional categories.

Beginning Categories
  • Attack Group
  • Seasonality
  • Onset
  • Severity
  • Symptoms
  • Outcome
  • Medical Care
  • Geography
Attack Group
Elderly - Emergent H7N9
Children - Emergent H7N9
Health Care Workers - pH1N1, H5N1, H7N7 Fatality

Seasonality
Summer Infection - H5N1, pH1N1

Onset
Immediate - Emergent H7N9, H5N1, pH1N1

Severity
Mild in children - Emergent H7N9, H5N1 Egypt 2009 Day Care

Symptoms
Pneumonia, Resolvable - Emergent H7N9
Fever - Emergent H7N9
Diarrhea - most host transition Influenza including pH1N1

Outcome
OutPatient - Emergent H7N9 early cases

Medical Care
Clinical Dismissal requiring Multiple Presentations prior to receiving care - Emergent H7N9
 
Re: China - Longhu: high incidence of pneumonia in elderly and children - air conditioning, indoor and outdoor temperature main reasons for increase - Shantou, Guangdong province

Symptoms
Headache - pH1N1, H5N1

Medical Care
Fever does not respond to anti-pyretics - Emergent H7N9
 
Re: China - Longhu: high incidence of pneumonia in elderly and children - air conditioning, indoor and outdoor temperature main reasons for increase - Shantou, Guangdong province

2013-07-12

China - Guangxi - Guilin: surge of children with fever in July

Symptoms
Temperature above 39C - Emergent H7N9, pH1N1, H5N1
 
Re: China - Longhu: high incidence of pneumonia in elderly and children - air conditioning, indoor and outdoor temperature main reasons for increase - Shantou, Guangdong province


2013-06-14

China - Anhui

Attack Group
Health Care Workers - pH1N1 Fatality, H5N1, H7N7 Fatality

Seasonality
Summer Infection - H5N1, pH1N1

Onset
Immediate - Emergent H7N9, H5N1, pH1N1

Symptoms
Pneumonia, Stated as Not Critical - Emergent H7N9
Fever - Emergent H7N9
Headache - all Influenza
Coughing - all Respiratory Influenza

Medical Care
InPatient - all Influenza
Quarantine - Emergent H7N9, H5N1, pH1N1

Geography
Anhui - Emergent H7N9, 5 Cases

FluTrackers
Emergent H7N9
Case Number

  • #003
  • #019
  • #021
  • #064
  • #109
 
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