New Disease Outbreak 2024 China. The surge of cases of this disease had burdened china’s. Washington — the “upsurge” in respiratory illness in china is not from “a new or novel pathogen,” the director of the centers for disease control and prevention reassured.

China will increase the number of specialised teams tasked with responding to future infectious disease outbreaks by five to 25, its top health official has said. By the end of 2023, china was facing a mysterious pneumonia that caused children to be hospitalized.