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'Unprecedented' Outbreak Strikes Hundreds of Kids
Newser ^ | Sep 7, 2014 | Neal Colgrass

Posted on 09/07/2014 6:42:07 PM PDT by Enterprise

Hundreds of children have been hospitalized across several states with a respiratory illness that seems like a cold but can grow far worse, CNN reports. Colorado, Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, and Oklahoma have already called the CDC for help in tackling an enterovirus that appears to be EV-D68. The current hospitalizations may be "just the tip of the iceberg in terms of severe cases," says a CDC director. "We're in the middle of looking into this. We don't have all the answers yet." The virus itself resembles a bad cold (nasty summer colds are often enteroviruses) but can become life-threatening, especially for children with asthma, CBS News reports.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: disease; enterovirus; epidemic; evd68; rarevirus; sickness; virusoutbreak
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To: MeshugeMikey

Hey don’t laugh my sister in law, her husband, son, and daughter in law along with 4 year old granddaughter just got back to dock today from a cruise to Belize. My sister in law is sick as a dog with upper respiratory. She gave Mr. GG2 a quick call so we don’t know if any of the rest of them have it or not. I was not that concerned until I just read this article.


41 posted on 09/07/2014 9:41:08 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Enterprise
Unidentified Respiratory Virus Likely to Hit Kids Across Country

A respiratory illness that has already sickened more than a thousand children in 10 states is likely to become a nationwide problem, doctors say.

42 posted on 09/07/2014 10:18:05 PM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: Patriot Babe

Yes, an undocumeted bug that crossed the border in an act of love. Just ask Jeb Bush.


43 posted on 09/08/2014 5:31:30 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: petitfour

Her other son had infantigo....

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Probably impetago.


44 posted on 09/08/2014 5:37:32 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Bigg Red

Oops! Impetigo.


45 posted on 09/08/2014 5:38:40 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Bigg Red

Yes, it was impetigo. Also known as infantigo to some. I was using the term she used. Heh. I think it is a regional thing because I was talking to another parent about it. It was interesting to me that the other parent started telling me about how her children had been diagnosed with scabies and “infantigo” before but that the diagnoses were always suspect. She said dermatologists in this town often make up diagnoses, and you either get well on your own, or you go to another doctor. Lol


46 posted on 09/08/2014 5:45:44 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: All

illegals spreading the diseases Americans won’t spread.


47 posted on 09/08/2014 5:50:01 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: petitfour

I guess we all need to study up on these diseases. Who knows what health surprises the Soros Administration will send us. Makes you want to crawl into a sterile bubble.


48 posted on 09/08/2014 5:52:15 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

May all be well.

God Bless You!


49 posted on 09/08/2014 6:06:39 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do)
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To: Thud

This was not un expected, given the Obama Open Border’s policy.


50 posted on 09/08/2014 8:09:30 AM PDT by Dark Wing
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To: blam

That is more likely. It probably already IS nation wide.


51 posted on 09/08/2014 8:30:59 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: Cry if I Wanna

I had the fifth disease my junior year of high school. Home with a temperature of 104 for a week (Mom was an R.N.). Finally landed in the hospital for an IV. Missed 6 weeks of school.


52 posted on 09/08/2014 8:53:27 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: MeshugeMikey

We just found out the 4 year old has developed the wheeze that the doctors are warning about so they are taking her to the Pediatrician today. Everyone in that group now has this virus. Needless to say Mr. GG2 and I will not be going anywhere near them for about 3 weeks.


53 posted on 09/08/2014 9:45:05 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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