Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Unusual respiratory virus strikes metro kids
Fox4KC ^ | 8-28-14 | Marylin McKean

Posted on 08/29/2014 4:57:46 AM PDT by Colehill1999

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An unusual respiratory virus is striking children in the metro in big numbers. Children’s Mercy Hospital is hospitalizing 20 to 30 kids a day with the virus. The hospital is as full now as it is at the height of flu season.

This is not the same virus we told you about several weeks ago that can cause meningitis. This one can cause severe breathing trouble. Children’s Mercy has seen more than 300 cases in recent days in kids of all ages.

(Excerpt) Read more at fox4kc.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: arth; disease; immigration; obama; plaque
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-68 next last
To: dirtboy

I caught it in March and again last week and still trying to shake it. My Doctor says I’m just unlucky.


21 posted on 08/29/2014 5:41:02 AM PDT by Rappini (Veritas vos Liberabit)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Colehill1999

My niece’s 8yr old son was diagnosed recently with “walking pneumonia”. First I’ve heard of that in many yrs.


22 posted on 08/29/2014 5:46:11 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: zerosix

Yep, I also know people in GA who came down with it. Just a little gift from the iLLEGALS and those who choose not to vaccinate. There will be lots of health resources spent on getting those folks well. Also, the is a DPT booster for those of us adults who had the vaccine eons ago.


23 posted on 08/29/2014 5:51:01 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: newnhdad

if all this can’t get people to kick them feds out of their lives then nothing will. afraid we are doomed due to the majority being complete and utter a-holes. Curse the greatest generation for raising a bunch of spoiled a-holes who have literally destroyed Eden.


24 posted on 08/29/2014 5:52:49 AM PDT by Colehill1999 (Obama - he has become death, destroyer of the world.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: newnhdad

Thats BS. I was told by a guy in Texas 15 miles from the border that it’s not kids. There are a lot of kids.....and FAMILIES. Lots of gang members as well. He told me that what they will do is the families go together, the adults hide while the kids turn themselves in. Then after border patrol takes their kids. The parents cross before BP has time to drop the kids off at the housing.

The parents go to other legal and illegal families and sympathizers all over the country. What you aren’t being told, is that the kids are going to where their illegal relatives are. They tell INS and BP that they have a legal uncle in (insert metropolis here), and no one checks because there are too many. So without even verification, they are sent wherever they ask with money, food,clothing, cell phones, food stamps, health care, education, transportation, welfare.


25 posted on 08/29/2014 6:16:21 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: newnhdad
"This is why my child needs to bring in close to twice as many notebooks, pencils, pens, crayons and “donations” as they did last year."

What would happen if you refused to provide these "extras?" Would your child be denied an education?

26 posted on 08/29/2014 6:21:05 AM PDT by Truth29
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: Colehill1999

Kansas City is the ‘hub’ of the NAFTA HIGHWAY.


27 posted on 08/29/2014 6:40:26 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Truth29

I don’t think they would kick her out of the class... but it’s annoying.


28 posted on 08/29/2014 6:54:59 AM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Colehill1999

Early RSV cases?


29 posted on 08/29/2014 7:11:55 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: freeangel

As to the DPT booster, that’s what my doc suggested though they are not so readily available as one imagines. <p€Another thing that we adults older than a certain age, is getting a Small Pox vaccination as it’s making another resurgence, thanks to illegals and parents fearful of all vaccines.


30 posted on 08/29/2014 7:14:56 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Former Proud Canadian
A nation without border controls or immigration controls soon ceases to be a nation.

Ceases to be a nation - AND gets every third world disease known to man...

31 posted on 08/29/2014 7:38:15 AM PDT by GOPJ (Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. —Thomas Mann)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: zerosix

I think you mean chicken pox, not small pox.


32 posted on 08/29/2014 8:12:32 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: Labyrinthos

Did you know Ebola is a enterovirus ?????


33 posted on 08/29/2014 8:19:58 AM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: Labyrinthos

This article is from February:

Is a Wave of Poliolike Symptoms in California Cause for Alarm?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-a-wave-of-poliolike-symptoms-in-california-cause-for-alarm/

It says that “enterovirus 68” is in the same family as Polio and can cause paralysis.


34 posted on 08/29/2014 9:52:42 AM PDT by PastorBooks
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: VanShuyten
No, I did intend to state small pox (it was on the upper arm and left a blister and for some of us, left slight scar.)

I understand that there has been a resurgence of it around third world countries, which means soon to visit a community near you.

35 posted on 08/29/2014 10:12:05 AM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: zerosix

I, too, have a vaccination scar on my left arm. However, small pox seems to have been eradicated in the wild, and except for a few samples kept at secure sites, in the lab.

According to the WHO: “The last known natural case was in Somalia in 1977. Since then, the only known cases were caused by a laboratory accident in 1978 in Birmingham,
England, which killed one person and caused a limited outbreak”

There are various other poxes, such as monkey pox, which rarely infect humans.

I would be more concerned about tropical and sub-tropical diseases and parasites being brought in by illegals.


36 posted on 08/29/2014 11:38:50 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: Former Proud Canadian

“Blame your government.”

Such blame, would be misguided in a nation where it is still established that the govt works FOR the people, and not the other way around.


37 posted on 08/29/2014 5:17:59 PM PDT by ourworldawry
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: txrefugee

An enterprising lawyer could start a thriving practice based on suing the government on behalf of parents who have kids suffering from these diseases.


38 posted on 08/29/2014 7:05:06 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: Colehill1999

This is what galls me; a generation that faced so much coddled their sprats instead of raising them to be hardy and as much of a realist as they were forced to become due to hardship.

This is why I’m not coddling my kids beyond a certain point in their life. I am not raising a kid to become a dipwit hippie who will take their advantages and wreck this country.


39 posted on 08/29/2014 7:07:05 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: albie
We’ll be seeing more and more “mystery” diseases now that we’ve opened our “hearts and minds”. Sarc

It's an Act of Love...


40 posted on 08/29/2014 7:10:15 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-68 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson