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Unidentified Respiratory Virus Likely to Hit Kids Across Country

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A respiratory illness that has already sickened more than a thousand children in 10 states is likely to become a nationwide problem, doctors say.The disease hasn't been officially identified but officials suspect a rare respiratory virus called human enterovirus 68. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus is related to the rhinovirus, which causes the common cold.
According to Mark Pallansch, director of the Division of Viral Diseases at the CDC, similar cases to the ones in Colorado have been cropping up across the U.S. At least 10 states -- Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa, Colorado, Ohio, Oklahoma, North Carolina, and Georgia -- have reported suspected outbreaks of human enterovirus 68 and requested CDC support.
"Viruses don't tend to respect borders," ABC News Chief Health and Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser said. "It is only 10 states now, but it's going to be across the country. So if your state doesn't have it now, watch for it, it's coming."

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/unidentified-respiratory-virus-hit-kids-country/story?id=25334106


I'm sure that open borders, and thousands of children who went virtually un-screened for disease, then shipped to the interior of the US have nothing to do with this....

To be truthful, I don't know if it did or didn't but I wouldn't be surprised....
 
I'm sure that open borders, and thousands of children who went virtually un-screened for disease, then shipped to the interior of the US have nothing to do with this....

To be truthful, I don't know if it did or didn't but I wouldn't be surprised....

Local school systems are forced to educate them so, I wouldn't doubt it. Even their health vetting and vaccination schedules are lax.
 
I'm sure that open borders, and thousands of children who went virtually un-screened for disease, then shipped to the interior of the US have nothing to do with this....

To be truthful, I don't know if it did or didn't but I wouldn't be surprised....

My children have had something this past week. Friday the oldest stayed home because of a cold with fever and today it's the youngest. Unfortunately, my youngest tends to get wheezing no matter what gets him sick. When we first got back to NC, he had pneumonia within the first month (which actually surprised the doctor when the xrays came back).

Illnesses happen. They are part of life. "Unscreened diseases" are the least of my complaints about illegal immigration.
 
I'm sure that open borders, and thousands of children who went virtually un-screened for disease, then shipped to the interior of the US have nothing to do with this....

To be truthful, I don't know if it did or didn't but I wouldn't be surprised....

Started in the same areas as bat "white-nose syndrome" wonder if it could be similar (at least more probable than border issue).
 
Local school systems are forced to educate them so, I wouldn't doubt it. Even their health vetting and vaccination schedules are lax.

Yeah, in this new day and age, it only takes one slip to spread something like this...Scary times.
 
My children have had something this past week. Friday the oldest stayed home because of a cold with fever and today it's the youngest. Unfortunately, my youngest tends to get wheezing no matter what gets him sick. When we first got back to NC, he had pneumonia within the first month (which actually surprised the doctor when the xrays came back).

Illnesses happen. They are part of life. "Unscreened diseases" are the least of my complaints about illegal immigration.

Well, my kids fortunately are grown, but things like this would have scared the crap out of me when they were younger....
 
Started in the same areas as bat "white-nose syndrome" wonder if it could be similar (at least more probable than border issue).

Yeah, don't know...But that it is seemingly spreading throughout the south, and southern mid west, it was just something that made me go hmmmmmm....
 
If it's called human enterovirus 68 then it isn't 'unidentified'.

It's uncommon - relatively unknown to people, but not the same thing as 'unidentified'.
 
If it's called human enterovirus 68 then it isn't 'unidentified'.

It's uncommon - relatively unknown to people, but not the same thing as 'unidentified'.

From OP
The disease hasn't been officially identified
"human" certainly doesn't qualify as "identified" .
 
Well, my kids fortunately are grown, but things like this would have scared the crap out of me when they were younger....

All parents get scared at least a little by illnesses, but they shouldn't let it become something that makes them overly protective of their children, like many want to do. Good (but not over-the-top) hygiene practices, making sure your kids and family stay healthy, and looking for symptoms that indicate something more severe than a simple cold or that could be lifethreatening is the way to deal with it. I would much rather my children build up immunities than have them completely isolated.
 
I've been saying for decades that there are more important reasons to actually control our borders than the general complaints.

--epidemics
--drug cartel violence moving across (esp as more and more states legalize pot)
--immigration
--security (terrorism)
 
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If it's called human enterovirus 68 then it isn't 'unidentified'.

It's uncommon - relatively unknown to people, but not the same thing as 'unidentified'.

Although it's usually an intestinal bug..... IT has evolved
 
I'm sure that open borders, and thousands of children who went virtually un-screened for disease, then shipped to the interior of the US have nothing to do with this....

To be truthful, I don't know if it did or didn't but I wouldn't be surprised....

With that list of states? Really? You looked at that ****in list of states and thought "unsecured Mexican border."

Really. Really.
 
I'm sure that open borders, and thousands of children who went virtually un-screened for disease, then shipped to the interior of the US have nothing to do with this....

To be truthful, I don't know if it did or didn't but I wouldn't be surprised....

Could be, but doubtful. For one, the states mentioned are not border states. Were the outbreaks to be mostly in Texas, California, and Arizona, then the likelihood of a connection would be much greater.

And, just how scary is this new virus anyway? Is it dangerous, or more like a common cold?
 
Could be, but doubtful. For one, the states mentioned are not border states. Were the outbreaks to be mostly in Texas, California, and Arizona, then the likelihood of a connection would be much greater.

And, just how scary is this new virus anyway? Is it dangerous, or more like a common cold?


Me thinks that the government dithering on FOI requests for the destinations of all those poor children caught on the border would not fill me with confidence that a border state would be the first place I looked for new disease? Hey, even MA got border kids..


Tim-
 
Could be, but doubtful. For one, the states mentioned are not border states. Were the outbreaks to be mostly in Texas, California, and Arizona, then the likelihood of a connection would be much greater.

And, just how scary is this new virus anyway? Is it dangerous, or more like a common cold?

Well, Colorado, and NC were in there....If I remember, those were two biggies as to where the children were sent...But I could be wrong....WCH has brought it to my attention that this may be a mutating virus.
 
Well, Colorado, and NC were in there....If I remember, those were two biggies as to where the children were sent...But I could be wrong....WCH has brought it to my attention that this may be a mutating virus.

Most likely that's what it is. If the outbreak were to have been some disease that we normally immunize children against, then the likelihood would have been that it could have been imported from somewhere that children are not immunized.
 
With that list of states? Really? You looked at that ****in list of states and thought "unsecured Mexican border."

Really. Really.

Those 'kids' were sent to states all over the country. Fact of the matter, the FedGov won't release a list of where they actually went.
 
Most likely that's what it is. If the outbreak were to have been some disease that we normally immunize children against, then the likelihood would have been that it could have been imported from somewhere that children are not immunized.

There is no vaccine.
Interestingly enough, these polio-like symptoms (caused by the same virus) popped up in CA earlier this year.

The current infection is considered a non-polio variety
 
Those 'kids' were sent to states all over the country. Fact of the matter, the FedGov won't release a list of where they actually went.

And not a single case in any of the states they first entered?
 
I'm sure that open borders, and thousands of children who went virtually un-screened for disease, then shipped to the interior of the US have nothing to do with this....

To be truthful, I don't know if it did or didn't but I wouldn't be surprised....

Wait a minute.... if this is to be blamed on illegal latino immigrant children.. then how come these cases are not in the states bordering Mexico? In fact some of them are actually closer to Canada... so why not blame Canada? Or do you really think that this disease some how jumped the border states to infect middle America? That aint how such things spread.....
 
I'm sure that open borders, and thousands of children who went virtually un-screened for disease, then shipped to the interior of the US have nothing to do with this....

To be truthful, I don't know if it did or didn't but I wouldn't be surprised....

Are you sure you're sure?...cuz if you were really sure you would have not mentioned it. Are you positive?
 
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