China faces a surge in sick children as illness rises in winter | The World

China is looking to open more fever clinics with a spike of respiratory illness as the country heads into winter.  University of Hong Kong epidemiology chair Ben Cowling tells The World’s Beverley O’Connor the winter illnesses are known – not novel – pathogens.

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