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 ...
Thanks, I’d wondered that. Looks like it’s spreading rapidly from California to points east. Not good. The only reason I can see for it to hit children is contract with infect illegal kids.
I’ll gladly continue to pay for ImmunoMaxx and ProbenZyme for my family. I think I’ll bump up our D3 intake also.
Enterovirus is a hand foot and mouth disease.
http://www.webmd.com/children/guide/hand-foot-and-mouth-disease-topic-overview
“The virus spreads easily through coughing and sneezing. It can also spread through infected stool, such as when you change a diaper or when a young child gets stool on his or her hands and then touches objects that other children put in their mouths. Often the disease breaks out within a community.”
Here’s the zinger - “the virus can stay in the stool for several months and may spread to others”
Weird, indeed. I have NEVER been sick like this. It makes me worry about cancer.
It seems this is an outbreak of EV-D68, one of many enteroviruses.
Some enteroviruses can cause serious disease, even death. Being enteroviruses, they are spread through feces. Little kids aren’t very good with hygiene, so these viruses spread fairly easily in children.
This particular enterovirus is not as serious as polio (also an enterovirus), and some other EVs have more fatality, but it seems to be pretty serious.
There is no vaccine and no cure for this virus. Basically, the kids have to receive supportive care until they can fight off the virus.
“the virus can stay in the stool for several months and may spread to others”
I don’t want to gross you all out, but one study had shopping carts tested. They found that 100% of the carts in the study came back positive for stool. So many people don’t wash their hands that every cart handle is assumed to have stool on it.
If this virus can live for months in stool, you need to wipe down the cart handle before you push it around. Put some rubbing alcohol on some wet wipes and use that. Don’t use the anti-bacterial wipes that many grocery stores are putting out. Anti-bacterial wipes don’t kill viruses. You need alcohol for that.
Ive been a pediatric nurse for 35yrs + and maybe it is time to retire.
We keep clorox wipes in the car for grocery cart handles. And not just the handle, the seat, both sides and as many metal rung thingies close to all that as we can.
We also pick carts that look like they’ve been in the sun for a long time.
“Basically, the kids have to receive supportive care until they can fight off the virus.”
Oregano oil might do it. It is a potent anti-viral. You can get it in health food stores.
“We keep clorox wipes in the car...”
I once checked Clorox wipes to see if they had bleach and, if I remember right, they don’t. Clorox wipes are like other anti-bacterial wipes, they are only using the Clorox brand name. You need to check, but I’m not sure that Clorox wipes are effective against viruses.
Interesting.
Maybe I’ll switch to Lysol wipes. My MIL uses those.
“Ive been a pediatric nurse for 35yrs +”
Wow. That takes a lot of commitment! I imagine you have a lot of stories to tell.
Have you ever wondered if the young adults passing you in the store might have once been your little patients?
I checked and the Clorox website does say that Clorox wipes kill viruses. Same with Lysol wipes.
http://www.clorox.com/products/clorox-disinfecting-wipes/
http://www.lysol.com/products/disinfectant-wipes/lysol-disinfecting-wipes/
I don’t know the effectiveness of these wipes as compared with alcohol.
This has hit our area a few times
I figure between UV and clorox or lysol it’s probably ‘OK’ to put my hands on them. I was totally neurotic about wiping down anything the baby could touch from the seat though when my kids were small.
Let’s not forget THIS:
“Obama signs Executive Order for detention of Americans showing signs of ‘respiratory illness’”
Alcohol does not kill all viruses, either.
During the SARS outbreak, one research spilled a vial of SARS virus inside the biosafety cabinet where he was doing experiments. He saturated the spilled liquid with alcohol, and let it sit for 10 minutes. He then wiped up the liquid, but he was not wearing gloves. He came down with SARS.
Unless a specific chemical has been tested and verified to kill a specific virus, you cannot assume that the virus is dead just because you doused it with that chemical.
Did not know that. The only thing better than alcohol that I can think of is fire... but I don’t think the store would like it if I torched the cart.
It all depends on the alcohol proof. 60% is nothing.
Thanks for the ping!
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