Working but had to post for you guys with kiddo's
30 kids a day in Kansas City seeking treatment for respiratory virus. A respiratory virus is sending hundreds of children to Missouri hospitals and possibly throughout the Midwest, officials say.
The virus causes symptoms like a cold, except worse, and is prompting up to 30 children a day to seek care at one Kansas City hospital, where about 15% of the youngsters were placed in intensive care, officials said.
In a sign of a possible regional outbreak, Colorado, Illinois and Ohio are reporting cases with symptoms similar to the same virus and are awaiting testing results, according to officials and CNN affiliates in those states.
In Kansas City, about 450 children were recently treated at Children's Mercy Hospital, and at least 60 of them received intensive hospitalization, spokesman Jake Jacobson said.
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Biological Hazard in USA on Saturday, 06 September, 2014 at 14:20 (02:20 PM) UTC.
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Children, under 12, have been stopped from visiting a hospital situated in Quincy, Illinois. The facility faced an outbreak of a respiratory disease. Hospital officials say that the virus is yet unknown and has affected, up till now, 70 young children. The Blessing hospital in Quincy registered cases of 70 children who have been suffering from an unknown respiratory virus. The cases surfaced during the Labor Day weekend. Lisa Neisen, the hospital spokeswoman, said that they won’t share the children’s status. Dr. Robert Merrick is an epidemiologist at the same hospital. He said in a statement that the virus is not identified yet. It has resemblance with HEV68 that is also a respiratory virus. HEV68 broke out a week earlier in St. Louis Kansas City. In Hannibal, Missouri a hospital named Hannibal Regional Healthcare System released the same warning to children. The hospital stated symptoms of this virus on its facebook page. Symptoms contained fever, sneezing, mouth blisters, cough and muscle aches. Runny nose and body pain were also included.
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Biological Hazard in USA on Saturday, 06 September, 2014 at 04:38 (04:38 AM) UTC.
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Hospitals across the Denver metro area are on alert for a mystery respiratory illness that can leave children and teenagers with asthma debilitated. Doctors told 7NEWS they believe the illness is linked to human enterovirus 68, which is related to rhinovirus, which is a cause of the common cold. Patients often complain of a rapid onset of cold-like symptoms and then suddenly are unable to breathe. "My head started hurting and after that my lungs started sort of closing up. It felt different," said 13-year-old Will Cornejo, of Lone Tree. "He was in really bad shape. He came really close to death. He was unconscious at our house and white as a ghost with blue lips -- he just passed out," said Will's mother, Jennifer Cornejo. "To go from a cold to you know, minutes away from death is kind of scary," said his mother, Matt Cornejo. At Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, physicians report about 10 of the 20 beds in their pediatric intensive care unit are young people battling the virus. "Our pediatric floor is full of patients with pretty severe respiratory distress," said Dr.Raju Meyappan, a critical care physician at Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children. Officials at Children's Hospital Colorado say they are also experiencing a surge in patients fighting the same virus -- up to 250 children a day since Wednesday. Doctors say the virus is extremely rare and they have yet to pinpoint when it first appeared in the Denver metro area, and why so many cases have sprung up recently. Since Aug. 18, more than 900 children have been treated for severe respiratory illness at Children’s Hospital Colorado emergency and urgent care locations in metro Denver; of these, 86 have been admitted into the hospital. Children’s Hospital officials said they started their usual wintertime visitation policy early this year due to the increase of respiratory viruses circulating since mid- to late-August. Because viruses cannot be treated with antibiotics, doctors said prevention is the best medicine.
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