Posted on 10/17/2014 10:54:58 AM PDT by tcrlaf
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Guatemala find it yourself
Fueling speculation in part was a research article published in 2013 in Virology Journal titled "Human rhinoviruses and enteroviruses in influenza-like illness in Latin America." That study was often referenced in such rumors despite the fact it did not specifically address a higher prevalence of such illnesses in the Central/Latin America region. Many readers mistakenly conflated the location of the study's participants with the location of an epidemic or geographic predilection for contracting and transmitting the virus, when in actuality Latin America was simply the place from which data was collected for the research.The rumor was addressed by MLive after the claim spread heavily in Michigan. Experts explained that Enterovirus strains have been in the United States for more than 50 years, with EV-D68 first being detected in 1987: Enterovirus was first detected in the United States in 1962, according to the CDC. The specific EV-D68 strain was first detected in 1987, said Eden Wells, Clinical Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
"I think that this really sort of argues against the fact that this is a new virus introduced by anybody," Wells said.
Dr. Matthew Davis, the state's Chief Medical Executive with the Michigan Department of Community Health, said that "While it's theoretically possible that someone from any part of the world can bring an infection to another part of the world, it seems unlikely that children from Central America have brought this particular enterovirus strain into the United States." --snopes
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/09/connecting_the_dots_on_enterovirus_evd68_spreading_among_our_children.html
Snopes? ROFLMAO might as well ask Obama his opinion
Ad Hominem. Try debate.
I suggest you read the original article and see if you can pick up on anything from it before you start yapping. thank you
Thanks for the ping!
Don’t yell at me you troll.
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