CHILDREN PARALYSIS THAT APPEARS ALONG WITH THE EV-D68 LUNG VIRUS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE - But the cause of this paralysis (AFP) is still unknown.

There has been suspicion that this paralysis may be related in some way to enterovirus D68, which has infected so many children across the country.  So far all evidence is inconclusive.

 

Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) of unknown cause in California

 

 VIROLOGY BLOG - October 7, 2014

 

In February 2014 I wrote about children in California who developed a poliomyelitis-like paralysis, also called acute flaccid paralysis or AFP. 

Enterovirus A71 can cause AFP



 However, the cause of this paralysis was not known. The CDC has released its study of these cases and concludes “The etiology of AFP with anterior myelitis in the cases described in this report remains undetermined.”  (Etiology =   The branch of medicine that deals with the causes or origins of disease.)

 

A total of 23 cases of AFP* in California were reported to CDC during the period June 2012 through June 2014. These cases were from diverse geographic regions of the state.

 

Specimens from 19 of the patients were available and tested for poliovirus, aroboviruses, herpesviruses, parechoviruses, adenoviruses, rabies virus, influenza virus, metapneumovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenza viruses, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Rickettsia, and amoebas.

 

Rhinovirus was detected in one patient, and enterovirus D68 in two patients; all others were negative for potential etiologic agents.  All 23 patients with AFP also had anterior myelitis, inflammation of the grey matter of the spinal cord, which is characteristic of poliomyelitis.

LUNG ENTEROVIRUS EV-D68 MAY BE BEHIND PARALYSIS IN 9 COLORADO CHILDREN - Doctors across the country have been put on alert while cases are being investigated




 

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Can the EV-D68 lung virus cause paralysis?  The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has sent an alert to doctors to be on the look out for symptoms of paralysis among children with respiratory illness.

Jayden Broadway and mom at Colorado Children's Hospital

• Health officials are investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in Colorado children.
• It is not certain whether the enterovirus 68 or EV-D68 lung virus -  that has been sending hundreds of American children to hospitals with acute respiratory illness  -  could be behind these symptoms.
• The EV-D68 virus was detected in four of the children experiencing paralysis.  But the virus is only one of several that can cause arm and leg weakness in children.
• The nine children had fever and respiratory illness about two weeks before developing varying degrees of limb weakness.  Eight of them are up to date on polio vaccinations.
• It's not known whether the limb weakness or paralysis is temporary or will be long-lasting.



Will Cornejo and mom in Denver, Co hospital

ABC News -  Health officials are investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in Colorado children and whether the culprit might be a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the country.

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday sent doctors an alert about the polio-like cases and said the germ — enterovirus 68 — was detected in four out of eight of the sick children who had a certain medical test. The status of the ninth case is unclear.

 

The virus can cause paralysis but other germs can, too. Health officials don't know whether the virus caused any of the children's arm and leg weaknesses or whether it's just a germ they coincidentally picked up.

EV-D68 LUNG VIRUS MAY BE AFFECTING CANADIAN CHILDREN - Recent spike in hospitalizations of kids with respiratory ailments

National Post - There is every reason to believe the rare respiratory virus that has hospitalized clusters of children in the U.S. is already in Canada but there is no need for parents to panic, the Canadian Paediatric Society says.

 

Health officials in Windsor, Ont., reported a spike in children admitted to hospital over the weekend with severe respiratory problems and are testing whether any of the infections are a result of enterovirus D68, or EV-D68 — a respiratory illness that has sickened children as young as six weeks old in 10 states.

MORE CHILDREN AFFECTED BY EV-D16 LUNG ENTEROVIRUS IN NEW YORK - POSSIBLY IN CONNECTICUT AND SAN DIEGO - Children hospitalized in large numbers already in the US Midwest

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  CBS photo

  More than a dozen cases of Enterovirus D68 have been confirmed in New York state, according to officials. 
• "EV-D68 is causing cases of severe respiratory illness ... sometimes resulting in hospitalization, especially among children with asthma," the NYS Department of Health said in a statement Friday.
• Two Connecticut hospitals, including the Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford, are treating suspected cases Enterovirus D68, the mysterious respiratory illness that has hospitalized children in a dozen states, according to a spokesperson for the hospital.
• At least three children at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego are currently being tested for this strain of the Enterovirus, which in some patients, can make breathing very difficult.

MYSTERY LUNG VIRUS EV-D68 EXPLODING AMONG VACCINATED CHILDREN

It's worse in terms of scope of critically ill children who require intensive care. I would call it unprecedented. I've practiced for 30 years in pediatrics, and I've never seen anything quite like this," said Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, the hospital's division director for infectious diseases. (CNN) 

Possible links to vaccine ingredients and to unchecked migration into the country.

NATURAL NEWS sees a correlation between children's weakened immune system as a result of so many vaccines, and their vulnerability in catching this and other diseases. 

In fact, vaccines have proved to be dangerous for children's health, and even lethal in some cases.  The pharmaceutical industry and their regulatory government agencies know this, but they do their utmost to play it down.  There are powerful interests promoting increased vaccination of babies and children. 
 
Click here for  Natural News vaccine news archive

Natural News also calls attention to the problem with the immediate integration of immigrants coming across the Mexican border without having had proper health checks.   These individuals are using public transportation, attending schools, and living with families all over the country.  It used to be that immigrants had to pass certain basic health requirements.  Not anymore for the current wave of asylum seekers. 

This blog is not  blaming anyone for this virus.  It has been around for a while, and this time it seems to have mutated into a more powerful strain. 

So aside from the present EV-D68 outbreak,  the lack of proper health checks for immigrants allowed across the border should be a matter of concern. 

 

 

Did other vaccines make children more susceptible to EV-D68 infections?

 

Children who have been vaccinated with MMR vaccines, influenza vaccines, polio vaccines and many others are the same children who are now being struck by EV-D68. How do we know this? Because we know how the rabid pro-vaccine media consistently reports on viral outbreaks:

Vaccine media propaganda rule #1) If an outbreak ever occurs among unvaccinated children, then the published stories will strongly condemn parents for failing to vaccinated their children while promoting vaccines as the one and only solution.

Vaccine media propaganda rule #2) If there's an inconvenient fact about vaccines that the media doesn't want the public to know, it will withhold that fact from all its stories. This was made abundantly clear in the recent media-wide blackout of the CDC whistleblower story, where top CDC scientist Dr. William Thompson openly admitted to committing scientific fraud at the CDC in order to hide the link between MMR vaccines and autism.

Click here to read the once-secret letter Dr. Thompson sent to CDC director Julie Gerberding, admitting to a cover-up.

The fact that the mainstream media is right now not blaming the EV-D68 outbreak on unvaccinated children is near-conclusive proof that this outbreak is occurring among vaccinated children.

 

Media doctors hopelessly clueless about what to suggest to parents

 

Because there is no vaccine for EV-D68, the media can't push vaccines as the solution for these infections. And so the media seems totally lost and clueless about what to report. There's no mention of protecting children's immune systems with vitamin D, and no mainstream media outlet even dares mention the words "immune support" for fear that people might realize a strong immune system is far better than a vaccine at preventing infectious disease.

MYSTERIOUS LUNG VIRUS ATTACKING AMERICAN CHILDREN ACROSS THE MIDWEST - Hundreds of sick kids with EV-D68 in hospitals. - With UPDATES

 

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Illness caused by new enterovirus strain spreads among children across the country. 
 

Virus comes on as a cold before developing into respiratory distress 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testing whether it is an Enterovirus D68 or EV-D68, a respiratory infection with varying symptons and levels of intensity

There is no proper treatment or vaccine for EV-D68

Doctors have been treating severe cases with ventilation

Outbreaks also reported in Colorado, Illinois and Ohio

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NOTE - The following is the September 7, 2014 report.  For the latest news please click on "Here" on the preceding paragraph.

Daily Mail - Hospitals across the Midwest are being inundated with children infected by a bizarre virus, which first comes on as a common cold before developing into severe respiratory distress.

In Kansas City, Missouri, about 450 children were recently treated at one facility - Children's Mercy Hospital - with at least 60 of them admitted to intensive care.  Possible outbreaks have also been reported in Colorado, Illinois and Ohio.

 

Children's Mercy Hospital's division director for Infectious Diseases, Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, said the problem was 'big' and 'unprecedented'

 

'I've practiced for 30 years in pediatrics, and I've never seen anything quite like this,' Dr. Jackson told CNN.

 

'We've had to mobilize other providers, doctors, nurses. It's big. I would call it unprecedented.

'It's worse in terms of scope of critically ill children who require intensive care.'

 

Dr. Jackson said the problem started around when school went back on August 17 and peaked between August 21 and 30.

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that some 19 of the cases in Kansas City tested positive for Enterovirus D68 or EV-D68,  D68 or EV-D68, typically causes only mild asthma-like symptoms but can be more severe in some cases.

 

However there is no specific treatment for an EV-D68 infection, which is almost exclusively associated with respiratory disease.  Ventilation appears to be the best away to assist patients with the infection.

 

There is also no available vaccine. 

 

There is currently no data for any deaths related to an EV-D68 infection in the United States. 

 

The full scope is yet to be known, but it would appear it's in the Midwest,' Dr. Jackson said.  'In our community (in Kansas City), meticulous hand-washing is not happening.   It's just the nature of kids. Worst I've seen.'

 

Symptoms include fever, body and muscles aches, sneezing, coughing and rash.

 

Rocky Mountain Hospital in Denver reported five children in their intensive care unit and 20 more in the pediatric unit.

 

Will Cornejo, 13, was among the children in intensive care after he came down with a cold last weekend.  His mother, Jennifer Cornejo, said when her son took a turn for the worse on Tuesday, struggling to breath, she feared the worst.  'It was like nothing we've ever seen,' Jennifer Cornejo told CNN affiliate KUSA.  'He was unresponsive. He couldn't speak to me. He was turning white and his lips turned blue.'  Will needed a breathing apparatus for 24 hours.

 

Nationwide Children's Hospsital in East Columbus, Ohio, reported a 20 percent increase in patients with respiratory illness last weekend. 

 

They are testing to see whether the cases are EV-D68.

 

Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Illinois, saw more than 70 children with respiratory issues last weekend, according to CNN affiliate WGEM.

 

Source - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2746531/Bizarre-lung-virus-hospitalizing-hundreds-kids-Midwest-30-children-admitted-day-Kansas-City-alone.html

Photo above - Patient Will Cornejo - CNN

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