The common symptoms of the disease are high and constant fever, cough, feeling short of breath, regularly occurring fatigue episodes and chest pain. Sweden and Denmark are the latest countries to be hit by a multitude of cases of white lung syndrome. It is caused by mycoplasma pneumoniae, which is a rare bacterial infection, with limited antibiotics to treat it. It is a disease that can cause discolouration of lungs. The respiratory disease is named such due to how the lungs look in the medical scans. The Warren County Health Department said via a press release, "We do not think this is a novel/new respiratory disease but rather a large uptick in the number of pneumonia cases normally seen at one time." Kids are being hospitalised | Image : Unsplash It is important to not panic and not call it a repeat of the COVID pandemic that put the world under a lockdown for more than a year in 2020, because this is not a case of a novel respiratory disease. This disease in the USA, China and recently in Denmark and the Netherlands has been identified as white lung syndrome. The average age of patients is 8 years and that makes it a threat to the entire children population. What makes this outbreak extremely alarming is that all of these cases have been reported in children. If the reports of a COVID-like outbreak of a form of pneumonia in China was not enough, America is also reporting several cases of a mystery disease.
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