What You Need To Know About The Current Enterovirus Outbreak (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by pinkorchid , Brisbane , Australia, Sunday, October 05, 2014, 03:17

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Much of the media was in a tizzy yesterday about a respiratory virus that's currently making life miserable for people in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere. Called Enterovirus EV-D68, it's a severe and uncommon bug, but it's not a mystery either. Here's what you need to know about the virus.

According to news reports, hundreds of children have been admitted to hospitals for treatment of the severe respiratory virus in Colorado, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina, Georgia, and Kentucky.
Virus hospitalizes hundreds of kids in Midwest and South

Between 1987 and 2005, 26 cases were reported worldwide — in the past month, 19 have been confirmed …Read on washingtonpost.​com

About 15% of the children had to be placed in intensive care. This virus, which has been known since the early 1960s, tends to peak around this time of year, but the current high rate of hospitalizations have caught healthcare officials off guard.
To date, no deaths have been attributed to the outbreak.

"It's worse in terms of scope of critically ill children who require intensive care. I would call it unprecedented," noted Dr. Mary Anne Jackson in a CNN article. She's a director for infectious diseases at Children's Mercy Hospital where about 475 children were recently treated.

"I've practiced for 30 years in pediatrics, and I've never seen anything quite like this," she said.

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