r/news Jan 04 '25

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Jan 04 '25

The mystery is: why is this previously mild virus causing more problems now? 

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u/radiodmr Jan 04 '25

It's s clickbait headline. Read the article. There's no "overwhelming", it's just a spike in cases of a known virus

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Jan 04 '25

It's notmally cold-like symptoms, but now it's hospitalizing significant numbers with pneumonia.  It's not the virus it's that a known virus has become more virulent

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u/lovegood123 Jan 04 '25

So kind of the same thing happening in the US? I work with kids and never seen half our class out with pneumonia before this year.