A pathogen is currently rampant in China that is primarily making children sick. But the state leadership doesn’t like to talk about it that much. She knows why.
In the end, a throat swab with a blood test brings certainty: the daughter of the man in the emergency room of a Chinese hospital in Hubei province has contracted the bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae infected. The pathogen can cause pneumonia. In his hand he holds the waiting number that he drew at midday: 1600. Good news for him. There are now 300 parents and their children waiting in front of him so that his daughter can see a doctor. She has had a fever of over 40 degrees for more than two days, he told a state newspaper in Hubei.