Posted on 11/25/2014 9:16:57 AM PST by george76
Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is one of over 100 non-polio enteroviruses, according to the CDC. For most people infected, it causes flu-like symptoms, mild to severe. It spreads just like the common cold virus, through coughing, sneezing, handshakes, or touching a surface touched by someone with the infection.
Over this past summer and fall, the United States, “has experienced a nationwide outbreak of enterovirus D68,” according to the CDC. For most infected persons, it’s just another cold. But “more severe infections can lead to hypoxia, meningitis, eye problems, heart involvement, and rarely paralysis.”
This sudden surge in EV-D68 cases is perplexing to the investigative sleuths in the media. USA Today calls it “unexplained” while noting 1,116 cases in 47 states, mostly in children, with 12 deaths from the virus. Up north, the CBC calls the recent surge in infections, including at least six cases in Canada a “mystery.” My hometown newspaper the Denver Post is also stumped about this “mystery” afflicting eleven children in Colorado, one of the first states reporting cases. Meanwhile ten children have been hospitalized in Denver for unexplained paralysis.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
No mystery of the source to me.
Look to the south and the porous borders!
Hands-up-if-its-a-mystery-to-you PING
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” This sudden surge in EV-D68 cases is perplexing to the investigative sleuths in the media. USA Today calls it “unexplained”
LOL!!
Evah boduh jump on the Disease Train.
Thanks for all of your posts on the topic. Health/life BUMP!
Some people are capable of connecting dots. Others not so much.
Busies self tying shoes...
The only mystery is how so many have blinders on.
That is a horrible distortion of the Virology Journal article:
The first sentence is saying that enteroviruses in general (NOT just Enterovirus D-68) "account for a substantial proportion of respiratory viruses identified in young people influenza-like illness." That is not limited to Latin America - in fact, the words preceeding the quote are "In Latin America as in other regions . . ." The fact is, enteroviruses (in general) are common pretty much everywhere, including the U.S. and Canada.
By contrast, the second sentence is talking about EV-D 68 specifically. The D-68 strain is rare in the U.S., as it is rare pretty much everywhere (including Latin America). It's an apples-to-oranges comparison.
EV-D 68 Ping...
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