US Outbreak Of “Rare” Illness Spreads To More States
By Susan Duclos
Allnewspipeline.com
September 6, 2014
Exactly how “rare” is an illness that has sickened more than 900 children since August 18, 2014 in just one state? How “rare” is it when multiple states are on alert and reporting up to 20-30 suspected cases a day with one state reporting a spike of 40 percent? Then one must ask, how is a virus supposedly so “rare” spreading from state to state?
Missouri was the first state to report more than 300 cases of suspected human enterovirus 68 aka HEV68 or EV68, which is being described as “rare” and “uncommon,” yet state after state is seeing children being brought into hospital with severe respiratory problems.
Cases in Missouri, Colorado, Ohio, with some reporting that Kansas and Illinois are on the list and other reports indicating there has been a 40 percent increase in patients coming into emergency rooms with respiratory symptoms, with the Columbus Dispatch saying the number has risen in Ohio to an average of 73 patients per day with these symptoms.
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