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John Campbell, Ph.D. this week explained what’s known so far about the surge in pneumonia affecting children in China, and why it likely isn’t a new pandemic but possibly may indicate the presence of an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection.
Reports of a “mystery wave of pneumonia” circulating among children in China have some people wondering if there’s a new pandemic afoot, internet lecturer John Campbell, Ph.D. said in a recent YouTube video.
“The short answer appears to be no,” said Campbell, a former emergency room nurse and teacher. However, a survey of the available information indicates there are “some strange things that are happening that don’t quite make sense.”
Campbell cited questions regarding what is causing the respiratory infections surge and whether the symptoms are typical.
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization (WHO) have reported an upsurge in respiratory infections among children in northern China. China reported that 3,500 children were admitted to the hospital in October and November. The Beijing Friendship Hospital pediatrics department on Nov. 11 told Radio Free Asia the department was fielding about 1,000 calls a day requesting emergency treatment.
Campbell said there are clearly clusters of pneumonia that need an explanation.
Given how long and intensely China was locked down during the COVID-19 pandemic, a certain number of rebound respiratory infections are expected among children who, because they were isolated during lockdown and not exposed to the typical number of pathogens, experience a “community immunity debt.”
That led Chinese authorities and the WHO to conclude the respiratory illnesses are normal.
But according to Campbell, there are some unusual in this surge, including that for the first time, China is reporting the presence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Mycoplasma is an unusual form of simple, small bacteria that can cause atypical pneumonia in some children and adults.
Local reports suggest this type of pneumonia is manifesting as inflammation in the lungs and a high fever, but with no cough. The lack of cough is inconsistent with pneumonia or mycoplasmic infection, Campbell said.
Pneumonia normally occurs in only 5-10% of people with a myoplasmic infection, but the glut of pneumonia occurring indicates the infection is causing it at higher rates or that the myoplasmic bacterial infection is incredibly common, he added.
The WHO has requested lab results and data trends related to this from Chinese health authorities.
“One thing that really concerned me here was the World Health Organization said they did this under the terms of the International Health Regulations (IHR), which of course we know they’re in the process of trying to amend to make them really even stronger,” Campbell said.
He added that China adheres 100% to the IHR and that whatever China has said, the Who “just seems to have regurgitated.”
China has said the increase in hospitalizations is due to known pathogens, which would be things like adenovirus influenza, and influenza, but Chinese health officials also added mycoplasma pneumonia.
But, he said, the Messenger reported that ”Chinese medical statistics remain deeply unreliable.” For example, China maintains a total COVID-19 death count of 120,000 nationwide, but independent estimates say it is closer to 2 million from COVID-19 or associated restrictions.
It is concerning that the WHO is simply echoing whatever the Chinese health authorities, Campbell said. “Should we expect more interrogation and rigor from the World Health Organization?”
Chinese officials also attributed some of the spike in infections to increased surveillance because since mid-October, they have been conducting enhanced surveillance and testing.
While that might contribute some, Campbell said, the surge is large. There have also been surges of respiratory viruses and influenza in the U.K and U.S.
Mycoplasma does affect the lungs, he said, but typically it causes walking pneumonia, a form of pneumonia that usually responds to antibiotics and does not require hospitalization.
“Now is there going to be another pandemic?” He asked. “I think the answer to that is no.”
With mycoplasma, he said, slow household spread is common and it is typically a disease of young people. It does occur in outbreaks, he said, but it is not particularly seasonal.
There is some inconsistency with the seasonality, and outbreaks are expected, although this outbreak seems larger than is typically expected.
Bacterial pneumonia can often occur after a viral infection, he said, so one question to ask is, “s there a common virus here that’s predisposing people to bacterial infections? Could this be a novel virus?”
He said there is not enough data to tell, but people are usually more susceptible to such infections after a virus, so that is a possibility, but there is no evidence for a novel virus or bacterial infection.
“What we’re probably dealing with here is potentially dangerous micoplasma antibiotic-resistance,” Campbell said.
Studies from Beijing show that the bacterial resistance to myoplasmic pneumonia in Beijing is between 70-90%, he said and typically mycoplasma infections are treated with antibiotics.
Children who are sick could be infected with an antibiotic-resistant strain. If that were to spread globally, he said, the main danger is that people would have difficulty treating it.
Even if it were multiple-drug-resistant mycoplasma, he said, it doesn’t change the transmission characteristics or pathogenicity of the bacterium. If it isn’t easily treated with antibiotics, he said, there will be more of it around, which means greater potential for more spread.
“Why the Chinese authorities and the World Health Organization wouldn’t want to discuss something as straightforward as bacterial resistance is difficult to know but there is a culture of secrecy in certain authorities in China so it’s not that surprising really.”
“It’s a pity” he said, that in its press release, the WHO doesn’t talk about optimizing the immune system with nutrition, vitamin D, sleep and exercise. Instead it talks about mask-wearing and isolation, which, he said, “didn’t work very well during the COVID pandemic, did it?”
“We can no longer fully depend on antibiotics the way we once could,” Campbell. “Perhaps we need to be looking at ways of upgrading the immune system so that if people get this infection it is less serious for them to suffer from.”
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No mystery. We were already told that a worse deadly ‘plague’ than covid was coming, will target children.
That many more will die than before.
They must have a lot of left over remdesivir and Fauci needs more cash flow.
OH OH OH!!! I know… What about an immune booster shot!?!?
Add a little mercury, some formaldehyde. a little mRNA and a little garlic for good measure and because garlic helps the immune system ye know. Git that stuff under ur skin and you’ll be good to go.
I jest luv psyience.
But, but, but…that’s what vaccines DO. It says so right here….
Vaccines that boost your immunity
The shots you got as a child can wear off. Here’s how to get up-to-date.
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2014/02/vaccine-booster-shots/index.htm
Vaccines injure every recipient.
They claim it just triggers an immune response.
“Immune response” is just a backhanded way of saying “intentional vaccine injury”.
Thanks for the link
Moos, I think you nailed it with the term “psyience”. Haven’t seen that one before but it pretty well captures what we’ve been seeing these last few years where poorly conducted studies have been used to propagandize and psychologically manipulate the masses. Seems like there is the potential for a really good meme there.
How does one independently verify this information?
Looking for alternative parameters to explain such claims is typically where my mind will go.
To me, I am seeing an increase of this stubborn pneumonia taking out a lot of mnra injected elders , But its just my highly subjective and quite anectdotal opinion , my Ma and now my Mother in law at the brink , both 85 , both jabbed to the maximum extent and so on . Heck , I may even have something , still have lingering effects of a respriatory thing that I, and my wife got at least a month ago . Diiference is I’m a 60 year old ,un-jabbed , “outside dog ” , baddass . So its more terrain theory with this , its nothing new about whatever crud is going around , but whats new is peoples compromised immune system from the spike protein nonsense . You get a geriatric , and its enough to push them over the edge , Wa la( viola ?) cutting the budget on SSI , and all those other alphabet gruberment entitlements .” What the hell good are old people anyway ” ( the rationale )
Great insight, all the jabbed have almost destroyed their immune systems and we will witness a lot of sickness and death in elderly and weak people. Who could have seen this coming? LOL
Hey its just my intution on the matter , not a Dr or medical expert so …but I do seem to have an uncanny ability to get these things right
Out of my family ? Only my hippy baby Dr big sis down in Cali and myself , a self professed semi illiterate reformed hippy Christian “conservative “carpenter with an uncanny knack for problem solving or finding “first causes ” .
You could take a trip to China, and interview people who would explain to you that China has pneumonia outbreaks every year due to their terrible air quality. They walk around with masks on all the time due to the high levels of air pollution. It has nothing to do with a virus.
Wear a mask and ruin your lungs! Never thought the USA people would turn into commie sheep weak …..
And the constantly increasing number of coal fired power plants.
Lung “bacterial infection” is a lung “bacterial imbalance”
Just like eating poorly can damage the biota in the digestive tract, being exposed to air toxins can damage the biota of the lungs.
YES the lung have a “probiotic” environment.
NO, science apprently has barely scratched the surface of undestanding lung biota…
The Lung Microbiome during Health and Disease
Abstract
Healthy human lungs have traditionally been considered to be a sterile organ. However, culture-independent molecular techniques have reported that large numbers of microbes coexist in the lung and airways. The lungs harbor diverse microbial composition that are undetected by previous approaches. Many studies have found significant differences in microbial composition between during health and respiratory disease. The lung microbiome is likely to not only influence susceptibility or causes of diseases but be affected by disease activities or responses to treatment. Although lung microbiome research has some limitations from study design to reporting, it can add further dimensionality to host-microbe interactions. Moreover, there is a possibility that extending understanding to the lung microbiome with new multiple omics approaches would be useful for developing both diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers for respiratory diseases in clinical settings.
Source
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8509400/
Are you suggesting that a person’s lungs injured by toxic smoke from train wrecks, wildfire smoke, toxic air pollution full of heavy metals, a low nutrition highly processed foods diet [weaken the lungs internally from malnutrition/toxicity] might be susceptible to a deadly bacterial bloom in the injured/damaged lungs which will drown the person in fluids?
pphhtttt… Oh my gorsh, you sound like some kkk nazi conspiracy wingnut. Next thing outta you will be CHEMTRAILS are real too, amirite!?!?
“Chemtrails, They Aren’t Just For Breakfast Anymore!”
Hi moos!
(waves back)
It’s me, Gavriel!
Had to go anon after picking up thorns.
Abstract
Exposure of the lungs to airborne toxicants from different sources in the environment may lead to acute and chronic pulmonary or even systemic inflammation. Cigarette smoke is the leading cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, although wood smoke in urban areas of underdeveloped countries is now recognized as a leading cause of respiratory disease.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4922809/
Solved it for ya admin.
Chronic exposure to indoor biomass smoke
from the combustion of solid organic fuels is a major cause of disease burden worldwide. Almost 3 billion people use solid fuels such as wood, charcoal, and crop residues for indoor cooking and heating, accounting for approximately 50% of all households and 90% of rural households globally. Biomass smoke contains many hazardous pollutants, resulting in household air pollution (HAP) exposure that often exceeds international standards. Long-term biomass-smoke exposure is associated with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in adults, a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, chronic bronchitis, and other lung conditions. Biomass smoke-associated COPD differs from the best-known cigarette smoke-induced COPD in several aspects, such as a slower decline in lung function, greater airway involvement, and less emphysema, which suggests a different phenotype and pathophysiology. Despite the high burden of biomass-associated COPD, the molecular, genetic, and epigenetic mechanisms underlying its pathogenesis are poorly understood. This review describes the pathogenic mechanisms potentially involved in lung damage, the development of COPD associated with wood-derived smoke exposure, and the influence of genetic and epigenetic factors on the development of this disease.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9818405/
Using dot gov research to out dot gov lies?
Priceless.!
In the west substitute wood smoke with natural gas usage and WALLA…
See, theres a reason cho bi dum wants to get rid of natural gas stoves, its for the children, and your safety, democracy too, and they’ll let you try to figure out how that ties in.
Throw all unrolled out alternative theories into the mix.
When they say “X is caused by Y, and leads to Z” we do well to ask “what about A thru W?”
Asking questions is conspiracy kkk driven misinformation leading to possibly discovering truth, so for your safety, not permitted. Besides, there is only Z, there is no A – W, just believe.
there is no A – W
Rootbeer?
I just love the smell of the puffs of woodsmoke that happens when I am getting the woodstove going on a cold day.
So there are lung probiotics and harmful biotics inside the lungs.
What’s behind it? Biden’s horrible poll numbers?
Boom!
Upvoted^
Boom ! I guess even though I’m just a dumb carpenter that stay at the Holiday INN must’ve done it for me . This is what I’ve been thinking and saying of late .
Mycoplasma was not that uncommon among AIDS patients during the 1980s peak. No shock that it would be more common among the VAIDS patients of the 20s.
Mycoplasma was not that uncommon among AIDS patients
Who were damaging their lungs by chronic exposure to amyl nitrate.
Yeah , it was the “queer “lifestyle , unprotected anal and oral sex with multiple “partners “, huffing amyl nitrate for that ” rush ” . Hollywood tries so hard to portray it otherwise but it is mostly NOT a healthy alternative lifestyle . I read a big thing on that as well ( there perhaps isnt really any virus known as AIDS) . Come to think of it even the acronym ” acquired immune deficiency syndrome ” tells me that . Fauci screwed the pooch on that one too , and two times ( including covid 19 now ) begins to look less like an oops and more like stealth eugenics, to me anyway.
I feel like I need to go scrub myself now just after typing that chit . Lol .
And another link to AIDS….
So the new “scary” virus going around in China is Mycoplasma Pneumonia, which is a listed adverse reaction to the covid vaccine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8810239/
Inhaling fibers into the lungs from forced (aka compliant) mask wearing which would cause pneumonia-like symptoms might have something to do with it. Sort of like inhaling asbestos causes mesothelioma. But that’s just me being an independent critical thinker. We all know that the brainwashed compliant terrified herd members will run for the next ‘vaccination’ as they are incapable of logic/common sense. There is a reason they are called “useful IDIOTS.”
Sorry again for a double-post. Computer glitch.
Perhaps inhaling fibers from disgusting masks into the lungs while complying with mask wearing and/or forcing one’s child to do the same has something to do with it – sort of like inhaling asbestos which causes mesothelioma. Of course the terrified brainwashed herds will stampede for the next ‘vaccination’ as they are devoid of critical thinking/logic and are blind to patterns of edicts/behavior etc. There is a reason they are called “useful IDIOTS.”
Aren’t they bringing like dozens of coal burning power plants online each year?
Any way coal smoke could irritate children’s lungs.?
I am not a conspiracy theorist… But… When I was in my local Walmart yesterday, I counted at least ten very young children hacking their brains out.
We all know that only about 8% of Americans are submitting to the current MRN-A Clot Shot. What if, the powers that be, cooked up another variant that only attacks very young children. Election year is coming up! The ads will say something like: “nothing is more precious than our children”. That will be all the ammo needed for a full lockdown and mandatory vaccine shot/passport for all Americans.
Just a thought?
Eventually they will loose a deadly lab grown something on us, I have no doubt. Don’t become too complacent.
They will use this to push vaxes again and whip up fury against we who refuse.
Radon gas is the leading cause of lung cancer in people who don’t smoke.
Search for ‘radon map’s in your area to see if you are at risk.
Radon gas is the leading cause of radon gas detector sales.