Posted on 09/06/2014 5:08:59 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The virus causes symptoms like a cold, except worse, and is prompting up to 30 children a day to seek care at one Kansas City hospital, where about 15% of the youngsters were placed in intensive care, officials said.
In a sign of a possible regional outbreak, Colorado, Illinois and Ohio are reporting cases with symptoms similar to the same virus and are awaiting testing results, according to officials and CNN affiliates in those states.
In Kansas City, about 450 children were recently treated at Children’s Mercy Hospital, and at least 60 of them received intensive hospitalization, spokesman Jake Jacobson said. “It’s worse in terms of scope of critically ill children who require intensive care. I would call it unprecedented. I’ve practiced for 30 years in pediatrics, and I’ve never seen anything quite like this,” said Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, the hospital’s division director for Infectious Diseases.
“We’ve had to mobilize other providers, doctors, nurses. It’s big,” she said
(Excerpt) Read more at fox4kc.com ...
Couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the tens of thousands of little Honduran invaders that Obama spread across the country.
Could it?
What are the early symptoms of ebola?
My first thought.
BenghaziBarrySoebarkah ORDERED the little “petri-dishes-of-disease”.
There’s gonna be hell to pay.
bkm to second article have seen regarding this information.
An analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed at least 19 of the Kansas City children tested positive for Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68), according to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
Vaccines for EV-D68 aren’t currently available, and there is no specific treatment for infections, the Missouri agency said.
http://q13fox.com/2014/09/06/respiratory-virus-sends-hundreds-of-kids-to-the-hospital-in-midwest/
I have been sick for over a month and still don’t have my voice back. Been on a pharmacy of drugs, too.
More (likely) imported troubles...
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The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
That enterovirus has also been linked to the polio-like illness recently found in California.
Not good.
My secretary is scared. Her 5 year old has asthma and chronic respiratory stuff. He was sick the first week of school but as far as I know is back in school now. BTW, we live in this metro area.
Nyaaaa Nyaaa Nyaaa
BIg GubamintMaster Obama would never allow such a thing to happen.
Not on HIS dime anyway..
Gee, ya’ think?
Thoughts?
I was sick like that beginning in June. When I finally started feeling better around the 3rd week, I completely lost my voice for a week and it took another 2-3 weeks for it to go back to normal. Very weird stuff.
Kansas City is THE MAJOR HUB of the NAFTA SUPERHIGHWAY.
I’ll take Scabies meets Ebola, FTW.
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