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Doctors watching for more cases after mysterious cluster of brain infections strikes kids in southern Nevada
cnn ^ | 4-28-23 | Brenda Goodman

Posted on 04/28/2023 7:04:13 PM PDT by dynachrome

Disease detectives with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating a cluster of rare and serious brain abscesses in kids in and around Las Vegas, Nevada, and doctors from other parts of the country say they may be seeing a rise in cases, too.

In 2022, the number of brain abscesses in kids tripled in Nevada, rising from an average of four to five a year to 18.

“In my 20 years’ experience, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Dr. Taryn Bragg, an associate professor at the University of Utah who treated the cases.

Pediatric neurosurgeons like Bragg are rare. She is the only one for the entire state of Nevada, and because she treated all the cases, she was the first to notice the pattern and to alert local public health officials.

“After March of 2022, there was just a huge increase,” in brain abscesses, Bragg said. “I was seeing large numbers of cases and that’s unusual.”

“And the similarities in terms of the presentation of cases was striking,” Bragg said.

In almost every case, kids would get a common childhood complaint, such as an earache or a sinus infection, with a headache and fever, but within about a week, Bragg says, it would become clear that something more serious was going on.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: braininfection; illegaliens; immigration; migration; nevada; wtf
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To: dynachrome

Hanta virus?


21 posted on 04/29/2023 2:15:43 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: dynachrome

Invaders disease


22 posted on 04/29/2023 2:18:14 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Savage Rider

Yup. It’s called Hantavirus. Lot of it on Indian Reservations.


23 posted on 04/29/2023 2:22:14 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: Getready

Or wearing masks 24/7?🤔


24 posted on 04/29/2023 2:33:57 AM PDT by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: dynachrome

Possible illegal alien disease cluster.


25 posted on 04/29/2023 4:39:18 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: webheart

Could be, I was thinking hot springs in the area and their parasites. I read you should never submerge your head due to possible infection.


26 posted on 04/29/2023 4:48:00 AM PDT by Sparky1776
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To: Indy Pendance

Gee, I wonder. Right? /s

“Safe & effective”


27 posted on 04/29/2023 5:29:19 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: dynachrome

Bad batch of “the vax” in that region?


28 posted on 04/29/2023 6:51:23 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Savage Rider

Maybe “The Caterpillar” episode from the old Night Gallery TV show.


29 posted on 04/29/2023 8:37:52 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: dynachrome

The kids are paying the supreme price for the MANDATED “”VACCINES””


30 posted on 04/29/2023 9:29:57 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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