Posted on 09/07/2014 6:42:07 PM PDT by Enterprise
Hundreds of children have been hospitalized across several states with a respiratory illness that seems like a cold but can grow far worse, CNN reports. Colorado, Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, and Oklahoma have already called the CDC for help in tackling an enterovirus that appears to be EV-D68. The current hospitalizations may be "just the tip of the iceberg in terms of severe cases," says a CDC director. "We're in the middle of looking into this. We don't have all the answers yet." The virus itself resembles a bad cold (nasty summer colds are often enteroviruses) but can become life-threatening, especially for children with asthma, CBS News reports.
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Hey don’t laugh my sister in law, her husband, son, and daughter in law along with 4 year old granddaughter just got back to dock today from a cruise to Belize. My sister in law is sick as a dog with upper respiratory. She gave Mr. GG2 a quick call so we don’t know if any of the rest of them have it or not. I was not that concerned until I just read this article.
A respiratory illness that has already sickened more than a thousand children in 10 states is likely to become a nationwide problem, doctors say.
Yes, an undocumeted bug that crossed the border in an act of love. Just ask Jeb Bush.
Her other son had infantigo....
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Probably impetago.
Oops! Impetigo.
Yes, it was impetigo. Also known as infantigo to some. I was using the term she used. Heh. I think it is a regional thing because I was talking to another parent about it. It was interesting to me that the other parent started telling me about how her children had been diagnosed with scabies and “infantigo” before but that the diagnoses were always suspect. She said dermatologists in this town often make up diagnoses, and you either get well on your own, or you go to another doctor. Lol
illegals spreading the diseases Americans won’t spread.
I guess we all need to study up on these diseases. Who knows what health surprises the Soros Administration will send us. Makes you want to crawl into a sterile bubble.
May all be well.
God Bless You!
This was not un expected, given the Obama Open Border’s policy.
That is more likely. It probably already IS nation wide.
I had the fifth disease my junior year of high school. Home with a temperature of 104 for a week (Mom was an R.N.). Finally landed in the hospital for an IV. Missed 6 weeks of school.
We just found out the 4 year old has developed the wheeze that the doctors are warning about so they are taking her to the Pediatrician today. Everyone in that group now has this virus. Needless to say Mr. GG2 and I will not be going anywhere near them for about 3 weeks.
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