See my comment at #43 - that article merely stands for the (unsurprising) proposition that some percentage of kids who present with flu-like symptoms have an enterovirus. Not necessarily EV-D 68 (and in most cases, an EV-A or EV-B virus), but an enterovirus.
The article Publish Date was the 11th of October 2013. They did identify EV-D 68 and warned of the emerging threat. Our government knew this prior to scattering the aliens throughout the country.