On 21 November, media and ProMED reported clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia in children in northern China.
- It is unclear if these are associated with the overall increase in respiratory infections previously reported by Chinese authorities, or separate events.
ProMED
- The Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) is a program of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID).
- ProMED was launched in 1994 as an Internet service to identify unusual health events related to emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and toxins affecting humans, animals and plants.
- ProMED is the largest publicly-available system conducting global reporting of infectious disease outbreaks.
- ProMED operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and has subscribers in almost every country in the world.
- Over the last 29 years, ProMED has been the first to report on numerous major and minor disease outbreaks and biothreats including SARS, Chikungunya, the early spread of Ebola and Zika, MERS, COVID-19, and many others.
