China's government has provided evidence that a cluster of respiratory infections that has sent scores of kids to hospitals in northern China is not from a 'novel pathogen,' according to World Health Organization officials.
Earlier this week, WHO released a statement saying it made an official request to China for detailed information - including laboratory results - about an increase in reported clusters of respiratory illness in children.
That included respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, as well as adenovirus, influenza and Mycoplasma pneumoniae, a bacterium that is a common cause of community-acquired pneumonia.
Before China released the data, outside experts told the Associated Press that while they believed the situation required close monitoring, they were not convinced the increase in illness signaled the start of a new global outbreak.
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