Posted on 09/08/2014 10:14:00 AM PDT by iowamark
An unprecedented lung virus that has infected over 1000 children across 10 states from the Midwest to the east coast is likely to spread to the rest of the country, doctors have warned.
Hospitals have reported unusually high numbers of children being admitted - some into intensive care - with the same viral symptoms, which usually start as a common cold before developing into severe respiratory distress.
Experts have not yet been able to officially identity the virus, however some cases have tested positive to Enterovirus D68 or EV-D68, a rare respiratory virus that typically causes asthma-like symptoms.
Suspected outbreaks have already been recorded in Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa, Colorado, Ohio, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Georgia, Mark Pallansch, the director of the Division of Viral Diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told ABC News.
'It is only 10 states now, but it's going to be across the country,' ABC News Chief Health and Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser told the station.
'So if your state doesn't have it now, watch for it, it's coming.'
Mark Pallansch, a virologist and director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Viral Diseases, told CNN that the cases already being treated are 'just the tip of the iceberg in terms of severe cases'.
While enteroviruses are quite common, the EV-D68 is rare, but there is no data showing any deaths have been elated to an EV-D68 infection in the United States.
The first cases were reported in the Midwest in August.
In Kansas City, Missouri, about 450 children were treated at one facility - Children's Mercy Hospital - with at least 60 of them admitted to intensive care.
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Now overlay a map of where the 0bama regime shipped the criminal alien border invaders.
That would be my guess. Have you heard Ebola might be in Miami? The CDC and Homeland want to be 'tolerant and loving' toward the third world... they're soooooooo much cooler than ordinary Americans with children...
Part of this frankly is that the bioterror tracking databases that were implemented by the CDC after 9-11 are capable of connecting the dots when patients in several states develop a nasty cold.
Surely such things happened in the past, but nobody was able to correlate the data.
I am in South Florida, where are you? I think you and I both caught this virus.
I saw a map that showed immigrants had been sent down here and Orlando.
Check your mail. :)
oh look. states where illegals were shipped.
Indiana will not be spared for long.
Obama lets illegals flood across border, many children
Obama Launches WMD Attack On U.S.!
Biological agents distributed across Nation in public places, schools
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