What’s the mystery pneumonia making children sick in China? Should the world worry?

China is infamous for giving the world COVID-19. It kept the virus which reportedly originated in Wuhan under wraps and what followed was a pandemic that brought countries to a standstill. Now once again, the Communist nation is under the scanner for another illness: A pneumonia outbreak has escalated in Chinese cities, including the capital Beijing, and hospitals are “overwhelmed with sick children”, according to reports in the media. It sounds like a story we have heard before. How bad is China’s pneumonia up-surge? Is another pandemic in the making? We explain. What do we know about pneumonia cases in China? Like in the case of COVID-19, scientists have once again raised alarm. ProMED, a publicly available surveillance system that…