Featured True origin of new mid-west mystery illness....

OFF TOPIC, OFF TOPIC!!!!!

Oops, this is the OP; I guess I've just seen this used so much it just came out automatically!!:smilewinkgrin::smilewinkgrin:

Seriously, this is fodder for the left to SCREAM RACISM, regardless of any attendant facts, sorta in line with your "PC" thread.

This, IMHO, is just one more facet of the ZERO and his Pied-Piperites demolishing of "The American Way"!

 

You have a point. but the government will never tell, even if they know it to be true.

 

It's not RARE and it's not a MYSTERY disease.

Enteroviruses, members of the Picornavirus family, are quite common, with more than 100 different types identified. It is estimated that up to 10-15 million enteroviral infections occur annually in the US, with the majority occurring during the summer or fall. The enteroviruses can affect multiple organ systems in the body, leading to respiratory, gastrointestinal, myocardial and central nervous disease. Unlike other enteroviruses, HEV68 only causes only respiratory symptoms.

 

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


Unidentified Respiratory Virus Likely to Hit Kids Across Country


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.

 

It was first identified in the 1960s and there have been fewer than 100 reported cases since that time. But it's possible, Pallansch said, that the relatively low number of reports might be because EV-D68 is hard to identify.

EV-D68 was seen last year in the United States and this year in various parts of the world. Over the years, clusters have been reported in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona and various countries including the Philippines, Japan and the Netherlands.

 

Central american countries including El Salvador and Honduras are also known to have problems with respiratory illnesses in children.

Strange coincidence.

 

And it's not "rare"?

 

Every country on the planet has children with respiratory illnesses. Do these children from Honduras and El Salvador have EV-D68 virus?

 

Yes, 100 cases is rare but there was an allowance for the possibility that many, many people get this virus but aren't tested for it because they simply think it's a cold.

 

:applause: Whooeee!!

I have more fun getting you sanctimonious defenders of open borders in an uproar. You turn real nasty in a big hurry. Makes it interesting.

Have you taken in one of those itty bitty defenseless 16 year old MS 13 members yet? I hear the gubment will pay you a tidy sum if you will. Just a rumor, you know. :smilewinkgrin:

I wonder where they sent all those "kids" and why they're keeping it a secret.

Never mind. Asking questions like that will cause you to get your bowels in an uproar again. Can't have that. You might turn so nasty you get yourself banned.:laugh:

 

I was going to mention this but you beat me to it.

Another thing to consider is the mode of transmission of this virus. The most common method is via feces to mouth (changing a diaper and then not washing your hands) then airborne droplets (sneezes, coughs.)

So if this virus is being spread by illegal child immigrants being sent to detaining facilities, how is the general population of children being exposed to the immigrants?

 

Had to take my son to the ER because he had respiratory problems. Doctor said that he hadn't seen any cases of enterovirus this year and it's unlikely my son had it but he said it typically shows up in late summer/early fall.

Then there was this article in the local paper:

Minnesota is part of a group of states that reports enterovirus cases by their strains to federal health authorities, and has reported cases of the D68 strain in each of the last three years. Late summer is when it commonly pops up, said Doug Schultz, a spokesman for the state health department. But the intensity of the illnesses has surprised health and hospital officials in the Midwest.

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/274827861.html

So, I'm sticking with my assertion that this is not a rare virus, nor is it mysterious. I conclude that the reporters in the article cited in the OP are lazy.

 

It took some research but the border state argument is specious.

The kids were held in isolation until they were scattered all over the country. We don't know where they all went because the Obama administration refuses to disclose their locations.

It wasn't until they were released into the public, primarily to schools, that the virus began to spread. It has begun to be called the Honduran flu by some because it is endemic to Honduras. We all know most of them received no medical screening and now our children are paying for it.

Obama is no better than a common criminal and continues to pressure health professionals, in particular those that work for the government, to hide the facts.