Deja flu? Alert over spread of mystery pneumonia ‘that has sickened dozens of healthy people in Argentina’
A mystery respiratory illness has hospitalised dozens of people in Argentina in an outbreak that shares eerie similarities with Covid’s arrival.
Sixty patients have been sickened with ‘severe atypical pneumonia’ in the capital, Buenos Aires.
An alert about the cluster of cases was last night circulated via an international public health surveillance system.
Covid was brought to the attention of the world in late 2019 as a result of the same database, called ProMed.
Beijing officials sounded the alarm over an ‘undiagnosed viral pneumonia’ outbreak in Wuhan, which would later transpire to be the pandemic’s ‘ground zero’.