Posted on 10/04/2014 1:12:26 PM PDT by wtd
HAMILTON >> On Saturday officials confirmed that the death of four-year-old Eli Waller, was caused by the Enterovirus D68 strain.
Little Eli Waller, one of three triplets, was asymptomatic according to Jeff Plunkett just prior to his death, Officials had been waiting to hear news of what may come of the findings from samples sent to the CDC regarding Waller, a process that was expedited with the help of Congressman Chris Smith. Late Friday evening officials were tasked with informing Waller’s family that the tests showed that the 4-year-old died as a result of what Plunkett described as a particularly virulent strain of Enterovirus, a virus which has more than 100 strains,
According to Mayor Kelly Yaede, said that the family has rallied together to make it through the difficult road ahead. As it stands, it remains unclear as to where the preschooler may have contracted the virus.
I grew up down in that part of Jersey. Used to be very rural. Lots & lots of Mexicans in that area when they were building balls to the wall. I don’t know about now,maybe some landscapers & grass cutters left.
wikipedia says “rarely” in the past 40 years for E68
I think I saw the “100 cases in 40 years” originally in the Wikipedia article on it, can’t find it there now though.
Here’s a CDC article on it describing its rarity:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6038a1.htm
Appreciate the refs. The GOP should hammer 0bama with this, but they are morons and won’t. But I repeat myself.
"Enterovirus 68 was first identified in a California lab in 1962, after four children came down with a severe respiratory illness. Between 1970 and 2005, only 26 cases of enterovirus 68 in the United States were reported to the CDC. Since 2000, the government agency has kept a closer watch and has seen 47 cases, Oberste said."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/24/health/mystery-illness-in-california/
That "since 2000" qualifier makes it unclear how many of those 47 cases are 2000-2005 and how many between 2005 and the Southern Invasion.
Note: From the embedded link, "the highest number of reports in a single year was 11 in 2003". That drops that 26 down to 15 in 36 years. How many multiples of that are we seeing this year? A thousand-fold? Two thousand? So far, with three months to go?
Home schooling is very easy in some states. In South Carolina, there are several online charter schools that accept students throughout the year.
Maine is probably one of the more home school friendly states.
+1
Prayers up for this little one’s family.
And why wouldn’t fathers and mothers believe that this is a direct result of obungo’s children? The children from central america are filthy with diseases our children and we have never seen. We have no antibodies for them. What obongo has done is like the europeans bringing smallpox to the american indians.... it wiped the indians out. They had no resistance to the disease.
obungo’s people don’t belong here, they are a scourge and disease ridden. They are killing our children.
If there is justice obungo will pay for this. He needs to be damned to hell.
Very helpful information, thank you!
My daughter is a nurse and would agree - only problem is that she needs to work as her ex is a deadbeat.
Testing testing
help her.
EV D-68 ping...
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Poor kid. RIP.
Disease the Illegal Aliens Brought
Thursday, October 2, 2014 18:15
(Before It’s News)
By Douglas V. Gibbs
When the Murrieta Immigration Protests in July were in full swing, and we were getting the attention of the media, I had two main talking points to throw out there before the reporters began asking me questions. First, my wife was born in Mexico, and her parents came to the United States legally when she was a child. Second, a part of the reason I got involved with the demonstrations in Murrieta was because my granddaughter, age three, had been diagnosed with hand, foot, and mouth disease, and the doctor made the comment that he was confused about why the formerly nonexistent disease in the Southern California city had suddenly appeared, and the number of cases was spiking.
“Immediately,” I told reporters, “I put two and two together and knew why our kids were getting sick.”
Aside from the new case of Ebola in Texas, disease is spreading through our country, and nobody is reporting where it is coming from. The news media keep calling it a “mysterious virus,” or a virus with an “unclear origin.” The presence of the enterovirus is not a mystery, but the reason it has suddenly sprung up, and is more dangerous than we’ve ever seen before, is.
It is being called Enterovirus 68, and after launching itself through school age children in Missouri, the illness has rapidly spread through the middle United States, and into the northeast where a child in Rhode Island has died from the disease. 42 States have now reported the presence of the disease.
The “mystery virus” causes a serious respiratory illness, and is believed to have played a role in a total of four deaths around the country. In the case of the Rhode Island death, the virus, combined with a bacterial infection, was more than the child’s body could handle.
First identified in the United States in 1962, the enterovirus has created havoc before, partly because its rarity leaves Americans with few natural immune system defenses to fight it off. In the past, the infection would act much like the common cold, but now the illness is much more severe, leading some children to need to be hooked up to oxygen, and even a breathing machine. In the Denver area, the virus is believed to possibly also be linked to muscle weakness, and paralysis.
The vast majority of children with the illness experience mild symptoms, and recover easily.
So why has the enterovirus emerged, and why is it that it did so in our schools? Is this just the unfortunate consequence of natural cycles, and it was time for the virus to make an appearance anyway? Or, was the disease brought into the United States from a place where the health care system is not as advanced as the American system by people who were not properly screened before entering the country?
In a conversation with a doctor I was seeing for therapy on my back recently, a man who immigrated to the United States legally and was encouraged by my participation in the Murrieta protests to stand against illegal immigration, he told me that the world is full of disease. Tuberculosis is present throughout the world, but in America it is all but gone. However, with the illegal aliens crossing the border comes disease. Tuberculosis. Hand, foot and mouth. Scabies. And the list goes on and on.
Is the appearance of these diseases at the same time the number of illegal aliens, particularly children from many points south of the border, coming across the border has increased drastically just a coincidence?
I don’t believe in coincidences.
– Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Respiratory Virus Seen in 4 Deaths, Role Unclear – Associated Press
Rhode Island Child Dies from Complications of Enterovirus That Has Been Affecting Kids Nationwide – CBS News Connecticut
Paralysis Link Suspected as Enterovirus Spreads – Yahoo News/ABC News
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