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SÃO PAULO RECORDS CASES OF PEDIATRIC PNEUMONIA

The state of São Paulo recorded five cases of bacterial infection that caused an outbreak of pneumonia in China. The diagnoses were reported in a bulletin from the Center for Strategic Information and Health Surveillance Response (Cievs) last Tuesday (26/12). According to the record, five children who attend the same school in Santo André, in Greater São Paulo, tested positive for infection with the bacteria Mycoplasma pneumoniae, and the outbreak was reported by the father of one of them. The children are 3 and 4 years old, were hospitalized, and survived. Four other students from the same school had flu-like symptoms, but tests did not confirm the illness.

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