10-09-2014, 10:47 AM
(10-01-2014, 03:51 PM)HairOfTheDog Wrote: Mags, I'm not sure about the validity of that article you posted from The Examiner.
Here's a related story about the virus and those afflicted.
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/01/health...?hpt=us_c2
In my opinion, there's no evidence of a link beween immigrant children and the infection just because a couple of the states that have experienced cases also happen to house immigrant children. I'm not saying that there couldn't be such a link but that's far from a given at this point, as far as I can see.
Still looking into this. I found this today;
A 2013 Defense Department study conducted in Central and South America on patients with flu-like illness, did identify EV-D68 in some of the test subjects. All 3,375 test subjects were age 25 or under.
The CDC now reports that cases of EV-D68 have been seen in 43 states as well as the District of Columbia. However, unofficially, the virus which has left many children with permanent breathing problems and limb paralysis, has also taken the life of four U.S. children, since mid-August.
On Sept. 25, 4-year-old Eli Waller died in his sleep at his home in Hamilton, NJ.
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He ain't heavy, he's my brother.