"Hospitalizations are higher than would be expected at this time of year," Dr. Anne Schuchat, head of infectious diseases for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday at a press briefing on enterovirus 68. "The situation is
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Hospitals in Missouri and the Midwest have been swamped with hundreds of children suffering from a respiratory virus called Enterovirus-68. The virus has the same symptoms as a common cold and
Health officials say EV-D68 or Enterovirus 68, made hundreds of children in the Denver area sick, and now the virus is being reported in other states, including Ohio.
CNN says the new outbreak of clusters of Enterovirus D68 could be just “the tip of the ice berg,” and KSTP ominously calls it a “mystery virus.” But it's actually not so mysterious, nor is it new, and it is seldom fatal. In fact, this year there have
He said there are as many as 100 enteroviruses that are seen in the summer and the fall. The common cold and hand-foot-and-mouth disease are enteroviruses. Why this particular strain is now circulating so widely and is causing so much infection is unclear.