“Create panic among people”: a large number of children sick with pneumonia are recorded in Russia

Rospotrebnadzor has not yet published data for Russia, but representatives of the Commissariat of Health in St. Petersburg and the Ministry of Health of Karelia admit that in Russia there are also a large number of children suffering from mycoplasma pneumonia.

China was the first to stir things up at the end of November. They even started talking about a supposedly new virus. An infection affects the lungs of children. Everyone is lying down. Hospitals are overcrowded.

As we remember, COVID-19 was first diagnosed in China in November 2019. Naturally, everyone was frightened that the world was again on the threshold of an era of a new infection – this time among children and adolescents from 5 to 18.

This was stated by the World Health Organization (WHO). She also asked China to provide more detailed information about what is happening there. But, as you know, China is like water off a duck’s back… So official Beijing did not react to the WHO’s request in any way, which caused even greater panic. Coronavirus statistics have not been declassified there since last year. And the exact number of people who got sick and died from the pandemic is still unknown; what other additional information is there to talk about!

Messages and photos of overcrowded Chinese hospitals, meanwhile, are circulating on sovereign social media. Teachers are urging parents not to send children to school with suspicious symptoms. The situation in Beijing is on a “steep upward trend,” state news agency Xinhua reported.

What begins in China, as we know, sooner or later reaches Europe. And now alarming information is coming from Germany and France: children are getting sick and the symptoms are similar.

Everyone, of course, became even more frightened.

The outbreak appears to be caused by a bacterium that can cause pneumonia, especially in children, teenagers and young adults.

Mycoplasmas are not some unique bacteria. They can be absolutely everywhere. A couple of years ago, the boy was diagnosed with atypical pneumonia. Urogenital mycoplasma was detected in the analysis. “It turned out that he was engaged in freestyle wrestling and picked it up on the mats in the gym, where adult athletes fought before him,” said pathologist from Germany Jeanne Schmidt.

It’s very small, this bacterium. It also lives on spermatozoa and on the epithelium of the urogenital tract. Vertical transfer possible. Remains in the respiratory tract for a long time.

The result is atypical pneumonia, chronic sepsis.

“A significant increase in childhood respiratory infections is due to the fact that this is the first winter after a long quarantine. Before that, everyone was remote and didn’t communicate, but now they went to school and started getting sick, this is normal,” Schmidt continued. She confirmed that they also have a wave in the media about how bad everything is.

Unfortunately, over the past years of quarantine, adults have done everything to reduce their immunity to endemic pathogens.

A similar phenomenon in the medical literature is called “immune debt.”

“Not only mycoplasma infections have become more frequent, rhinoviruses and respiratory syncytial viruses (RSV) have become more active. Just in case, doctors send all sick people to hospitals. Testing for the pathogen in general began to be carried out much less frequently than in the Covid era, because it is expensive.”

“Such infections also exist in Moscow,” the doctor emphasized. — As for Europe, I believe that the situation is largely being inflated artificially. To create panic among people again. Drug and vaccine manufacturers benefit from this.”

Germany has a very low vaccination rate among children. Now the most suspicious people will run to get vaccinated and buy pills. No “undermining health.” Leave the children, and adults too, alone, give them time, and everything will return to normal.