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    Doctor: Gov’t ‘Tight-Lipped’ on Respiratory Virus, May be From Illegals

    Doctor: Gov’t ‘Tight-Lipped’ on Respiratory Virus, May be From Illegals

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    Dr. Jane Orient, Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, reported that the government has been “real tight-lipped” about the mysterious respiratory illness that has struck children in the United States, expressed concern that the illegal immigrant minors from Central America could be the source, and argued that the government should devote more resources to border security to combat the spread of disease on Wednesday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.”

    When asked whether illegal immigrant children who have been sent to various locations around the country could be the cause of the virus, she responded “Yes, they could be. We don’t know for sure the government is being real tight-lipped about this, and it only takes one infected child to infect the whole classroom.”

    Orient added “we don’t know where it’s coming from...are there immigrants from Central America, where this disease has allegedly been prevalent before? Should we be [looking at] the virus to see whether it’s like what’s been found in some of these countries that are just sending waves of children across our border and they haven’t been quarantined long enough to make sure they’re not sick?”

    She also spoke about the risks posed by drug resistant tuberculosis, saying “virtually all of the cases of drug resistant TB that have been discovered in the United States are in foreign born individuals, and the vast majority of any type of TB is in a person who was born in a foreign country. It is a public health nightmare to just have one of these cases in your community because the person needs to be quarantined...and you could catch TB on a bus, there is no question about that.”

    In addition, Dr. Orient about the contagiousness of and potential for weaponizing the Ebola virus, reporting “the CDC, on its website, still says you can't get it through the air, however, they're putting out more directives of a Canadian public health services saying ‘well, maybe you can get it through the air.’ This type of air transmission has occurred in animals who had no contact except through the air. And Even so, it’s very, very contagious, it only takes between 5 and 10 virus particles to infect a person. You don't have to have cuts...there are receptors for the viruses in [people’s] normal skin." And “it's extremely transmissible that's why people who like the idea of killing off 90% of population say it would be an ideal agent for accomplishing that. There have been attempts to weaponize it...but you don't really need an ICBM warhead to transmit this, you just some infected people coming across your border." She further stressed that the government should devote more resources to securing the border to prevent the spread of disease.

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    America’s Kids are getting Sick and ‘They’ Know Exactly Why

    Posted on September 10, 2014 by Diane Sori

    “But this one, this particular Enterovirus 68, is very rare and they have no idea why it showed up this year.”

    - ABC News Chief Health and Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser

    NO idea why…I don’t think so as ‘they’ know exactly why our kids are getting sick…as in its just another little bit of ‘anything but happiness’ from our borders NOT being secured…period.

    And so it seems that soon after the deluge of pint-sized criminals crossed ILLEGALLY into our country because of those unsecured borders…and with them still coming but to a somewhat lesser degree…our kids started to get sick…very very sick. And it has been well documented that many of those pint-sized criminals were sick when they crossed with what ‘they’ tried to pass off as NOTHING but mere ‘sniffles.’ But isn’t it more than a bit coincidental that ‘suddenly’ an extremely rare respiratory virus started hitting our kids…hitting them hard all across the country…hitting them in the very states where Barack HUSSEIN Obama dumped these thousands of pint-size criminals. And our kids are getting sick because they have NO immunities to something they have NEVER been exposed to before.

    Now, I do NOT want to hear from those who say that kids get sick at the start of every school year because we all know that is indeed true but…and here is where it deviates from the norm…the common cold is what starts the school year off with a whimper and a sneeze…the school year does NOT start off with a virus so severe as to cause what’s turning into an ever-expanding and in some cases life-threatening epidemic. The school year in this country does NOT start off with a virus so dangerous that kids are being hospitalized with a few even dying…and it surely does NOT start off with a virus so dangerous that it’s being recommended that if your child has asthma or any other serious respiratory issues that they stay home so as NOT to be exposed…and please know that this is a virus rarely seen in this country.

    And the so-called ‘experts’ claim they do NOT know where this virus came from or why all of a sudden it is showing up here now, but that is to put it bluntly a LIE for logic itself dictates exactly where it came from and exactly who brought it in. And logic also dictates exactly whose fault it is that this dangerous virus is here in the first place…as in can you say Barack HUSSEIN Obama and our unsecured ‘everyone is welcome if you vote Democratic’ borders.


    And this little bit of nastiness has already sickened more than a thousand children in 11 states (as of this writing) and if CDC predictions are correct is more than likely to become a nationwide epidemic. And while experts suspect the outbreak is caused by a respiratory virus called human enterovirus 68 (EV-D68…a virus related to the rhinovirus that causes the common cold. But this virus is anything but the common cold as the common cold does NOT send children to the hospital gasping for breath. And while enteroviruses are indeed very common…causing between 10 and 15 million illnesses in the U.S. each year…the fact is that this particular enterovirus is NOT common in this country but is very common in poverty stricken undeveloped countries…countries like those where these pint-sized criminals and oh so ILLEGAL older children came from.

    EV-D68 was first detected in the U.S. in California in 1962, but less than 100 cases have been confirmed anywhere in this country in the 52 years since then, but isn’t it odd that now there are thousands of children infected with their numbers growing daily. Again…do I really need to say more as to why all of a sudden this virus is here now…simply connect the dots and know that the picture isn’t pretty.


    Eleven states so far…Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa, Colorado, Ohio, Oklahoma, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and Georgia, have all reported outbreaks of this particularly nasty virus and are asking the CDC for help. And again, all these states have schools where the ILLEGAL children have been enrolled and entered into the student population…and now all 50 states (got that Obama 50 NOT 57 states…57 is the number of islamic states but you know that) are on alert as hospitals across the country are seeing a spike in the number of pediatric patients being admitted to the emergency room.

    And with doctors NOT all agreeing on how this particular virus is spread…and with children ranging in age from six weeks to 16 years being affected…it becomes quite clear that the virus is originating in the schools where the ILLEGAL children are enrolled…where the ILLEGAL children have been dumped…where the ILLEGAL children are the carriers who get our kids sick who then in turn bring the virus home to infect both their younger and older siblings…and the cycle of illness is complete.

    And to show just how serious this epidemic is, Children’s Hospital Colorado in Denver, reported that between August 18th and September 4th…in a bit more than two short weeks…doctors saw more than 900 pediatric patients with symptoms of EV-D68 in the emergency room. Of those who came in, 86 were admitted into the hospital with a handful ending up in the intensive care unit.

    Starting with a simple runny nose this virus rapidly progresses into coughing, wheezing, and trouble breathing even for kids NEVER having a history of wheezing…even for kids NOT being asthmatic. And these kids suddenly are NOT only wheezing but gasping for every breath as they are rushed to the hospital with many ending up with a breathing tube down their throats…intubated and on a ventilator…because they simply cannot breath on their own.

    And guess what…there’s NO vaccine for EV-D68 and NO special antiviral medication to treat it…it has to run its course with palliative supportive treatment, and with fingers crossed to hope for the best.
    And the bottom line is that EV-D68 has most assuredly been brought into this country by the very pint-sized criminals Obama has allowed to stay…NO matter what he or ‘they’ say.


    So where do we go from here…what do we do to stop our children from getting sick…the usual things are being touted like our kids should wash their hands often with soap and water…like that will ever happen…that our kids should avoid touching their eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands…like that too will ever happen… and that our kids should avoid sharing or trading lunches in school…yeah right. But I have a better way to keep America’s children safe from EV-D68 along with all the other assorted ‘nasties’ these pint-sized criminals are bringing into our country… round up all the ILLEGAL children Obama disbursed throughout our country (and he knows exactly where they all are) and send them back…deport them…to whence they came for our children’s health…maybe even their lives…depends on it.

    And then ‘they’ and Obama can sort it all out amongst themselves for deliberately putting America’s children in danger is one red line ‘they’ and Obama best dare NOT cross.

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    [Listen] Illegals and Dems Spreading Diseases Among School Kids, Both Known and Unknown

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    Posted on 17 September, 2014 by Rick Wells

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    Dr. Jane Orient is the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and also the President of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness. She discusses with Laura Ingraham the threat posed by Ebola and the possibility of it being used as a weapon of mass destruction on the American population.

    Dr. Charles Krauthammer raises the concern of a possible mutation of Ebola into a form which can be transmitted through the air from person to person. While the CDC still lists Ebola as only being transmitted through intimate contact, their Canadian counterpart is putting out information which indicates that it can be transmitted through the air.

    She believes that the open border is absolutely a serious concern that needs to be addressed immediately. While we can do a better job of screening the legal applicants, she reports that citizens of over one hundred different nations are known to have gained entry into the U.S. through our open borders with only a three percent apprehension rate. Some of the nations sending illegal aliens across include those in the Ebola hot spot of West Africa.

    She points out we have no knowledge of who the people entering illegally are or where they are going and that often, the U.S. federal government is providing the transportation to “parts unknown” within the United States.

    Laura Ingraham points out the terrible wages of an open border, citing four terrible effects of a government that is irresponsible and derelict with its immigration policies as cultural, economic, national security, constitutional, sovereignty and now medical.

    Dr. Orient also speaks to the risk of drug resistant Tuberculosis and comments that it seems the only ones being harassed by Immigration are the people who are trying to follow the law.

    She then talks of a previously rare disease, Enterovirus D68 virus, an intestinal virus with symptoms that include a paralysis similar to Polio, which is said to be transmitted not only through the fecal/oral route but through respiratory transmission. Doctor Orient says there have been over one thousand admissions of children who have been extremely sick with the disease, including many who required intensive care treatment.

    She says we don’t know where it’s coming from, noting that school has just started, noting a possible connection with the unscreened, unchecked foreign imports from Central American countries. The Obama regime and DHS’s Jeh Johnson have been busy importing as many illegals as possible, irrespective of the serious health threat posed to the American population.

    Laura Ingraham notes how she is broadcasting from the Washington, DC area, which received represents one of the largest concentrations of illegal alien warehousing of anywhere in the United States. She asks if they could be in the classrooms infecting other kids right now, to which Dr. Orient responds, “Yes, they could.”

    She adds that we don’t know for sure, the government is being real tight-lipped about it. She points out that it only takes one sick child to infect an entire classroom, eventually leading to thousands of cases and hospital admissions.

    Dr. Orient also notes that virtually all of the cases of drug-resistant TB which have been diagnosed in the United States have occurred in foreign-born individuals as is the case with all types of TB.

    The threat is very real and very serious. It is growing daily and it is totally a Democrat and Obama regime creation that should have never happened. Americans will become infected, and many may die as the result of a deliberate, criminal act carried out by their government upon its citizens.

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    Enterovirus 68

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    Enterovirus 68
    Virus classification
    Group: Group IV ((+)ssRNA)
    Family: Picornaviridae
    Genus: Enterovirus
    Species: Enterovirus D
    Subtype
    Enterovirus 68
    Synonyms
    Human rhinovirus 87[1]

    Enterovirus 68 (EV68, EV-D68, HEV68) is a member of thePicornaviridae family, an enterovirus. First isolated in California in 1962 and considered rare, it has been on a worldwide upswing in the 21st century.[2][3][4]




    Biology[edit]

    EV68 is one of the more than hundred types of enteroviruses, a group of ssRNA viruses containing thepolioviruses, coxsackieviruses, and echoviruses. It is unenveloped. Unlike all other enteroviruses, EV68 displays acid lability and a lower optimum growth temperature, both characteristic features of the human rhinoviruses.

    Epidemiology[edit]


    Since its discovery in 1962, EV68 has been described mostly sporadically, in isolated cases: six clusters (equal to or more than 10 cases) or outbreaks between 2005 and 2011 have been reported from the Philippines, Japan, the Netherlands, and the states of Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona in the United States.[5] EV68 was found in 2 of 5 children during a 2012/13 cluster of polio-like disease in California.[6]

    Cases have been described to occur late in the enterovirus season,[5] which is typically during the warm months, from spring to autumn (August and September in the Northern hemisphere).


    Predisposing factors[edit]


    Children less than 5 years old and children with asthma appear to be most at risk for the illness,[7]although adults with asthma and immunosuppression have also been reported.[5]

    2014 North American Outbreak[edit]


    In August 2014, the virus caused clusters of respiratory disease in eleven, mostly Midwestern states of the U.S., first confirmed in Kansas City, Missouri and Chicago.[8] By mid-September there were 130 suspected cases in states in the US, including Colorado, Louisiana, Alabama, New York, New Jersey, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Montana, Kentucky, Kansas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.[citation needed] In Canada in September 2014, 18 cases of the virus were confirmed inAlberta and three in British Columbia .[9]

    Signs and symptoms[edit]


    EV68 almost exclusively causes respiratory illness, and varies from mild to severe. Initial symptoms are similar to those for the common cold, including a runny nose, sore throat, cough, and fever.[9] As the disease progresses, more serious symptoms may occur, including difficulty breathing as inpneumonia, reduced alertness, a reduction in urine production, and dehydration, and may lead torespiratory failure.[9][5] Like all enteroviruses, it can cause variable skin rashes, abdominal pain and soft stools. In two California children, it was associated with paralysis of one or more limbs reaching peak severity within 48 hours of onset. "Recovery of motor function was poor at 6-month follow-up. Two children tested positive for enterovirus-68, a rare virus previously associated with polio-like symptoms."[10]

    Treatment[edit]


    There is no specific treatment and no vaccine, so the illness has to run its course; treatment is directed against symptoms (symptomatic treatment). Most people recover completely, and few need to be hospitalized.[5] Five EV68 paralysis cases were treated with steroids, intravenous immunoglobulinand/or plasma exchange. The treatment had no apparent benefit as no recovery of motor function was seen.[10]

    Prevention[edit]


    The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend "avoiding those who are sick". Since the virus is spread through saliva and phlegm as well as stool, washing hands is most important.[9] Sick people can avoid spreading the virus by basic sanitary measures, such as covering the nose and mouth when sneezing or coughing.[7] Other measures including cleaning surfaces and toys.[9]

    For hospitalized patients with EV-D68 infection the CDC recommends transmission-based precautions, i.e. standard precautions, contact precautions, as is recommended for all enteroviruses[11] and to consider droplet precautions [8]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterovirus_68

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    Outbreak of a Respiratory Illness Escalates Among Children and Mystifies Scientists

    By CATHERINE SAINT LOUISSEPT. 25, 2014


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    Nine-year-old Jayden Broadway of Denver being tended to at Children’s Hospital Colorado, which treated about 3,600 children for respiratory illness from Aug. 18 to Sept. 24. Credit Cyrus McCrimmon/Denver Post, via Getty Images

    An outbreak of respiratory illness first observed in the Midwest has spread to 38 states, sending children to hospitals and baffling scientists trying to understand its virulent resurgence.

    As of Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had confirmed 226 cases of infection with enterovirus 68. But it is likely that many times that number have been stricken. One case involved an adult, and no deaths have been linked to the infection.

    “What the C.D.C. is reporting is clearly the tip of the iceberg,” said Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, the division director of infectious diseases at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. The hospital was the first to alert the agency last month to an unusual increase in children with trouble breathing. Since then, Dr. Jackson has received calls from colleagues nationwide seeking guidance.

    Some report that the influx of children to hospitals is “almost outweighing the resources available,” she said.

    Three times in the past month, the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital has had to divert ambulances to other hospitals because its emergency room was filled with children, most of them younger than 5, with severe respiratory illness. Before the outbreak, the hospital had not had to divert ambulances in 10 years, said Dr. Daniel Johnson, the interim section chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the hospital.

    Enteroviruses are common, but this strain is not. Symptoms in the current outbreak resemble those of a bad cold, including body aches and cough. But some children progress to wheezing and having breathing difficulties. Scientists say they do not know why it is happening.

    “Parents would love to know why this virus is causing severe disease and why there are more cases,” said Rafal Tokarz, an associate research scientist at Columbia University who has studied the virus, “but we won’t be able to answer that until a lot more research is done.”

    From Aug. 18 to Sept. 24, roughly 3,600 children were treated at emergency and urgent-care facilities at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Most were sent home, but roughly 10 percent were hospitalized because they needed continuous breathing treatment, supplemental oxygen, or even to be placed on a ventilator in the intensive-care unit.

    The hospital has had a “bed crunch” and is struggling to maintain supplies of albuterol, a rescue medication used by asthma sufferers, said Dr. Christine Nyquist, the director for infection prevention and control.

    Experts said children should rest at home if they had run-of-the-mill cold symptoms like a runny nose, cough and body aches, but were hydrated, eating and breathing comfortably.

    “If your child has mild respiratory cold symptoms, they do not need to be rushed to the E.R.,” said Dr. Marian G. Michaels, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. The hospital’s emergency department has seen 50 to 70 more children a day for respiratory illness than is customary this time of year.

    But there are signs that a child requires immediate medical care: rapid or labored breathing that involves neck muscles, wheezing, complaining of chest pain or not being able to catch one’s breath, and blue lips. A baby who has to stop drinking from a bottle to breathe should be seen by a doctor. A fever need not be present.

    Belabored breathing should be obvious. “Parents aren’t going to miss this,” Dr. Jackson said.

    She said many school-aged patients told their parents, “I need to go to the E.R. because I can’t breathe.”

    Children with asthma or underlying lung disease are more often sent to intensive-care units, but severe symptoms are “not limited to them,” said Dr. Meg Fisher, medical director at Unterberg Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J.

    Dr. Fisher added: “You can’t totally say: ‘My child doesn’t have asthma. I don’t need to worry.’ ” Monitor children who have colds closely, she said, but “let’s not panic.”

    She and others urged parents to take standard precautions to avoid spreading enterovirus: Wash hands often with soap and water for 20 seconds. Disinfect toys. Avoid sharing cups or utensils with sick children.

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    People already strapped by the Democrat's economy are now saddled with medical bills for their children so that Democrats can appease illegal aliens by helping to traffic their children to them via Mexican drug cartels without health screening. Yet, they just don't know where it came from? It seems that Chicag, which a large illegal population, has been hit particularly hard.


    Outbreak of a Respiratory Illness Escalates Among Children and Mystifies Scientists


    By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
    SEPT. 25, 2014


    An outbreak of respiratory illness first observed in the Midwest has spread to 38 states, sending children to hospitals and baffling scientists trying to understand its virulent resurgence.

    As of Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had confirmed 226 cases of infection with enterovirus 68. But it is likely that many times that number have been stricken. One case involved an adult, and no deaths have been linked to the infection.

    “What the C.D.C. is reporting is clearly the tip of the iceberg,” said Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, the division director of infectious diseases at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. The hospital was the first to alert the agency last month to an unusual increase in children with trouble breathing. Since then, Dr. Jackson has received calls from colleagues nationwide seeking guidance. Some report that the influx of children to hospitals is “almost outweighing the resources available,” she said.

    Three times in the past month, the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital has had to divert ambulances to other hospitals because its emergency room was filled with children, most of them younger than 5, with severe respiratory illness. Before the outbreak, the hospital had not had to divert ambulances in 10 years, said Dr. Daniel Johnson, the interim section chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the hospital.

    Enteroviruses are common, but this strain is not. Symptoms in the current outbreak resemble those of a bad cold, including body aches and cough. But some children progress to wheezing and having breathing difficulties. Scientists say they do not know why it is happening.

    “Parents would love to know why this virus is causing severe disease and why there are more cases,” said Rafal Tokarz, an associate research scientist at Columbia University who has studied the virus, “but we won’t be able to answer that until a lot more research is done.”

    From Aug. 18 to Sept. 24, roughly 3,600 children were treated at emergency and urgent-care facilities at Children’s Hospital Colorado. Most were sent home, but roughly 10 percent were hospitalized because they needed continuous breathing treatment, supplemental oxygen, or even to be placed on a ventilator in the intensive-care unit.

    The hospital has had a “bed crunch” and is struggling to maintain supplies of albuterol, a rescue medication used by asthma sufferers, said Dr. Christine Nyquist, the director for infection prevention and control.

    Experts said children should rest at home if they had run-of-the-mill cold symptoms like a runny nose, cough and body aches, but were hydrated, eating and breathing comfortably.

    “If your child has mild respiratory cold symptoms, they do not need to be rushed to the E.R.,” said Dr. Marian G. Michaels, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. The hospital’s emergency department has seen 50 to 70 more children a day for respiratory illness than is customary this time of year.

    But there are signs that a child requires immediate medical care: rapid or labored breathing that involves neck muscles, wheezing, complaining of chest pain or not being able to catch one’s breath, and blue lips. A baby who has to stop drinking from a bottle to breathe should be seen by a doctor. A fever need not be present.

    Belabored breathing should be obvious. “Parents aren’t going to miss this,” Dr. Jackson said.

    She said many school-aged patients told their parents, “I need to go to the E.R. because I can’t breathe.”

    Children with asthma or underlying lung disease are more often sent to intensive-care units, but severe symptoms are “not limited to them,” said Dr. Meg Fisher, medical director at Unterberg Children’s Hospital at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, N.J.

    Dr. Fisher added: “You can’t totally say: ‘My child doesn’t have asthma. I don’t need to worry.’ ” Monitor children who have colds closely, she said, but “let’s not panic.”

    She and others urged parents to take standard precautions to avoid spreading enterovirus: Wash hands often with soap and water for 20 seconds. Disinfect toys. Avoid sharing cups or utensils with sick children.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/health/outbreak-of-a-respiratory-illness-escalates-among-children.html?_r=0

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    Just wait til Ebola breaks out over here. There's absolutely nothing to stop it, especially when we have a bunch of so called 'leaders' who won't screen, profile, and shut down travel to and from those affected countries. We will have a health and economic terrorism event of epic proportions and we will have nobody but Barack Obama to blame.

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    Virus probed in paralysis cases in 9 Colorado kids

    By MIKE STOBBE
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    NEW YORK (AP) -- 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.

    "That's why we want more information," and for doctors to report similar cases, said the CDC's Dr. Jane Seward.

    The cases occurred within the last two months. All nine children are being treated at Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora, and most are from the Denver area. A hospital spokeswoman said the patients' families didn't want to talk to the media.

    The nine children had fever and respiratory illness about two weeks before developing varying degrees of limb weakness. None seems to have a weak immune system or other conditions that might predispose them to severe illness, but the cases are still being investigated, Seward said. Investigators don't think it's polio - eight of the nine children are up to date on polio vaccinations. It's not known whether the limb weakness or paralysis is temporary or will be long-lasting.

    The cases come amid an unusual wave of severe respiratory illness from enterovirus 68. The germ is not new - it was first identified in 1962 and has caused clusters of illness before, including in Georgia and Pennsylvania in 2009 and Arizona in 2010. Because it's not routinely tested for, it's possible the bug spread in previous years but was never distinguished from colds caused by other germs.

    This year, the virus has gotten more attention because it has been linked to hundreds of severe illnesses. Beginning last month, a flood of sick children began to hit hospitals in Kansas City, Missouri, and Chicago - kids with trouble breathing, some needing oxygen or more extreme care such as a breathing machine. Many - but not all - had asthma before the infection.

    The CDC has been testing a limited number of specimens from very sick children around the country, and as of Thursday reported 277 people in 40 states and the District of Columbia with enterovirus 68. So far no deaths have been attributed to the virus, but Seward said 15 still are being investigated.

    Health officials know enterovirus can cause paralysis. Published reports count at least two people in the U.S. who were paralyzed and were found to have the virus in their spinal fluid. One was a New Hampshire 5-year-old in 2008; details are scant on the second case, a young adult, which happened many years earlier.

    Earlier this year, Stanford University researchers said they had identified polio-like illnesses in about 20 California children over about 18 months. Two tested positive for enterovirus 68. CDC officials say it's still not clear if the virus was a factor in those cases.

    Paralysis is a rare complication of enterovirus 68 infection, but with so many more cases of enterovirus being reported this year, it may not be surprising to see that problem, said Dr. Larry Wolk, chief medical officer of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

    The CDC is asking doctors to report patients 21 or younger who developed limb weakness since August 1 and who have had an MRI exam that showed abnormalities in the nerve tissue in the spinal cord.

    Seward said a test that showed the germ in a patient's spinal fluid would be good evidence that the virus was causing paralysis. Unfortunately, lab tests of spinal fluid often fail to identify bugs like enterovirus 68, even if they're present, she added.

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    CDC: Respiratory illnesses up to 277 confirmed cases in 40 states

    USA Today Network Jolie Lee, USA TODAY Network 4:31 p.m. EDT September 29, 2014

    The number of confirmed cases of an uncommon respiratory illness has increased to 277 in 40 states and the District of Columbia, affecting mostly children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    First identified 50 years ago, Enterovirus 68 or EV-D68 was rarely tested for and only began getting attention last month as hundreds of cases were linked to the virus.
    "The severity is what triggered our concern," said Mark Pallansch, director of the CDC's Division of Viral Diseases.

    The mild symptoms are similar to the common cold, but can progress into wheezing, problems breathing and paralysis.
    The CDC, state health officials and doctors from Children's Hospital Colorado are investigating whether 10 cases in Colorado of children with muscle weakness or paralysis are linked to the virus.

    Most had a respiratory illness about two weeks before coming down with an unspecified "acute neurologic illness," the CDC said. All were hospitalized for treatment, and of the eight tested, four were positive for enterovirus. The CDC said eight of the nine were confirmed up-to-date on their polio vaccinations.

    The CDC says lab results for EV-D68 — not to be confused with the Ebola virusdo not indicate how widespread the cases are in each state. The health agency and a handful of state public health are working through a backlog of "multiple hundreds" of specimens, with more coming in, Pallansch said.

    So far, about half of the specimens the labs have tested have come back positive for EV-D68 and the number of confirmed cases is likely to grow nationwide as the testing continues, according to the CDC.

    Last year, there were no more than a dozen confirmed cases of the virus, but mainly because not as many cases were tested, Pallansch said.

    "These increases will not necessarily reflect changes in real time, or mean that the situation is getting worse," according to the CDC.

    Infants, children and teens are most at risk to get sick, especially children with asthma and the reason for the current outbreak is not completely understood, Pallansch said. Currently, there is no vaccine, he added.


    The treatm
    ent is focused on improving the patients' "ability to uptake oxygen," but there is no antiviral for people with EV-D68, he said.

    "A lot of this is still under investigation, and these investigations can take weeks," Pallansch said.


    HOW WIDESPREAD IS EV-D68?



    The CDC was
    first notified Aug. 19 of 19 patients in Kansas City, Mo., and a few days later of 11 patients in Chicago. Since then, reported cases have not been confined to the Midwest.



    States with lab-confirmed EV-D68, as of Friday(Photo: Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY)

    • In the 10 cases in Colorado of muscle weakness or paralysis, the children are being treated at Children's Hospital Colorado in Aurora.

    That hospital has treated more than 2,500 children for severe respiratory illnesses from mid-August to mid-September, with nearly 10% admitted for hospital stays, said Ann-Christine Nyquist, medical director of infection prevention and control at the hospital, in an interview with the American Academy of Family Physicians.

    The CDC confirmed 19 of 25 specimens from the hospital tested positive for EV-D68, as of Sept. 15, Nyquist told AAFP.

    This 2007 photo provided by the Children's Hospital Colorado shows the facility in Aurora, Colo. On Sept. 26, 2014, the CDC said it is investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in children at the hospital, and whether the culprit might be enterovirus 68 which is causing severe respiratory illness across the country.(Photo: AP)

    • In Texas, 10 cases have been confirmed in Dallas County and one in Denton County, reports WFAA-TV.

    "It is taking us three-to-four times longer to break the wheezing," said Jim Allard, director of pediatric services at Medical City Children's Hospital in Dallas, in an interview with the station.

    • In New Jersey, about 30 children have been hospitalized at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune since mid-September, reports The Asbury Park Press.

    But many improved "dramatically within several days," said Steven Kairys, chairman of pediatrics at the medical center. As of Thursday, the CDC had confirmed one case of the virus but is testing dozens more in the state, the Asbury Park Press reports.


    Last week, a 4-year-old boy in Hamilton, N.J., died of an unidentified respiratory illness, but it's unclear yet if EV-D68 can be blamed for the death,
    reports The Times of Trenton.

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...vd68/16416001/
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    Pandemics Are Entering the US Through the Southern Border

    Posted on June 29, 2014 by Dave Hodges

    America is facing a health crisis of unparalleled proportions. We could be weeks away from an outbreak of several pandemics on our southern border which will lead to the United Nations emerging as a legitimized police force operating within the territorial boundaries of the United States, ostensibly here to meet the crisis.
    Do the Arts Imitate Life, Or Is It the Other Way Around?

    Do you believe in predictive programming? Or, when Hollywood airs something that could very likely lie in our immediate future, do you just chalk it up to being merely a coincidence? TNT has purchased 10 episodes of the new series, The Last Ship, a Michael Bay production.

    The show is based upon the premise that after a global pandemic kills ove
    r 50% of the world’s population, the crew of an unaffected U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer must try to find a cure and stop the virus in order to save the entire population of the planet.


    Two civilian
    virologists, Dr. Rachel Scott and Quincy Tophet, claiming to be studying birds, join Captain Tom Chandler and crew aboard the USS Nathan James on their way to the Arctic. Rogue Russian forces attack them, and Chandler learns the virologists are actually collecting samples of a deadly virus that has wiped out over half the human population while they have been at sea for four months. The crew and its officers are unaware of the spreading pandemic because they have been forced to remain in radio silence while on their mission. What is left of the decimated U.S. government orders the ship home, but those aboard the ship realize home does not exist as they knew it. The safest place to develop a vaccine to this deadly pandemic is on their ship on the open seas. During the course of the first episode, Dr. Scott informs the Captain that the progression of the virus has skipped a sequence in its evolution which strongly suggests that they are dealing with a weaponized virus and which has been deliberately put into play by a rogue group.


    Below is the official trailer for the series. The same danger is brewing on our southern border and is threatening to spread with the same vengeance. After watching the following trailer, ask your self, is this well-publicized new show a case of predictive programming or just one heck of a coincidence to what could likely lie ahead as result of our border crisis?



    When my father’s family came through immigration into this country, they were quarantined and examined for diseases and viruses. This was standard operating procedure in dealing with past immigrant populations. However, within the present border crisis, scores of immigrants are not being medically examined and they are being put on planes and transported throughout the United States.

    The Hint of a Coming Pandemic(s) to the United States


    Phoenix’s ABC affiliate, Channel 15, ran a story on June 6, 2014 in which the producers reported from McCallen, Texas. The news story expressed a serious and growing concern with regard to illegal immigrants crossing into the United States and the potential deadly health concerns associated with this mass migration. The report interviewed several U.S. Border Patrol agents who are gravely concerned about what’s coming over the border. What is coming according to Border Patrol agents are not just immigrants, but pathogens, constituted in the form of a viral outbreak, which could cause serious harm in the United States.

    The Channel 15 report quoted Chris Cabrera, a Border Patrol agent, who stated “We are sending people everywhere. The average person doesn’t know what’s going on down here”. Cabrera stated that Border Patrol agents are seeing illegal immigrants come over the border “with contagious infections”. Specifically Cabrera stated that “There’s been an outbreak of scabies that’s been going on for the past month”.


    Dr. Jane Orient

    In an exclusive interview with Breitbart, Dr. Jane Orient, an internal medicine specialist and the Executive Director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), stated that by admitting these huge groups of children who come from countries where medical screenings are minimal and hygiene is poor, the United States is at risk for epidemics of serious diseases and viruses that the nation has not seen in years and for which we have no immunity.

    Well, this is America and of course we are screening these people right? Not according to Border Patrol agent Cabrera where he again told Channel 15 “..the sickness doesn’t stop at scabies… We are starting to see chicken pox, MRSA staph infections and we are starting to see different viruses.” In other words, the Border Patrol does not understand what they are dealing with. This is an unmitigated disaster in the making.


    DHS Plays Dumb


    DHS has denied Breitbart’s requests for interviews with doctors and medical staff treating sick immigrants. DHS also denied Breitbart’s request to tour their medical facilities in which they are treating sick immigrants. What are they hiding? Breitbart’s staff is merely asking to inspect a public facility that is tax supported.

    Breitbart released the following DHS statement:
    “DHS has public health controls in place to minimize any possible health risks. Throughout the RGV Sector we are conducting public health screens on all incoming detainees to screen for any symptoms of contagious diseases of possible public health concern. U.S. Border Patrol has established Medical Units at its busiest border stations (McAllen, Weslaco, and Ft Brown) handling UAC. US Coast Guard medical teams are assisting with the screening process, and providing health care evaluations for the sick and injured.
    Occupational health and safety guidance has been provided to for CBP personnel in the handling of subjects with signs of health-related symptoms. Our workforce has been provided and encouraged to use personal protective gear including latex or non-latex gloves, long-sleeve shirts, and to take precaution including frequent hand washing”.

    What DHS fails to explain away is that many of these immigrants are transported to a remote location within hours of being detained and we are to believe that each and everyone of them has gone through an extensive and complete health screening.

    Does that also include analyzing blood and other bodily fluids? Because that is the only way to be certain that one is not a carrier of a deadly virus. Further, many pathogens and viruses have a well-defined incubation period prior to a person becoming symptomatic. DHS is either incredibly ignorant or, there are other forces at work here. Further, why is it DHS defending the health screening practices and not the Center for Disease Control (CDC)? DHS is a national police force, not a a medical investigative body! Something is terribly wrong with this scenario.


    When a Pandemic Arrives At the Southern Border, Nobody Will Be Looking!


    In the aforementioned ABC report, Border Agent, Chris Carbrera, also stated that DHS summoned Coast Guard medics to help treat detained immigrants who are sick. Again, DHS is not qualified or staffed to make medical calls with regard to what medics may or may not diagnose. Do you know what it takes to become a medic in the military? It takes minimal training and the ability to inject a wounded man with morphine. Coast Guard medics, in lieu of CDC expert doctors, are not trained in outbreak diagnoses and subsequent containment. In short, this gross incompetence and under-response to a potential health crisis that is not being dealt with.
    There are diseases and viruses coming into this country are so obscure and so virulent, that most of today’s doctors, who have never seen the symptoms, would probably misdiagnose them anyway. It is a certain fact that no medic or DHS personnel will make a proper diagnosis of a pathogen which could lead to a pandemic. Who says that this is true?
    The Experts Speak but Nobody Is Listening

    In the same interview with Breitbart, Dr. Jane Orient stated that, “Tuberculosis (TB) is the single most dangerous disease because

    it is highly contagious and can be easily picked up at the mall, at a school, or on the bus… Cases coming from south of the U.S. border can be very resistant to medications. They don’t respond to traditional antibiotics, and the few drugs they may respond to are often toxic, with lots of side effects… Legal immigrants have always been required to undergo health screenings Orient continued, “but these kids coming have no medical screenings… They’re likely coming here with a number of infectious diseases that will spread like wildfire.”


    Interviewed by The Monitor, Dr. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, stated that the immigrants coming across the U.S. border, from countries which have third world health care and primitive screening, we will find many immigrants carrying the highly contagious and deadly TB as well as measles. She also expects to see a multitude of hepatitis, malaria, Chagas disease, a parasitic infection, and dengue fever cases. Dr. Vliet conclusively stated that “A public health crisis, the likes of which I have not seen in my lifetime, is looming”.


    Border Patrol agent, Chris Cabrera heightens the health concerns when he describes the quarantine procedures at the detention centers. He told ABC that the symptomatic people are moved to one side of the facility and they are only separated by a yellow tape from the so-called healthy immigrants. Cabrera also stated that SEVERAL Border Patrol agents are often infected with scabies. The spread of these pandemics has likely already begun. Meanwhile, these immigrants, meaning no harm to America, are being transported by DHS and ICE all across the country. This is how one creates asymptomatic carriers of deadly diseases.


    MIA at the border. Why?

    Will Ebola Be Part of This Invasion?

    I have received two reports of hospital emergency rooms posting the symptoms of Ebola on their walls. One of my sources is a reporter who does not yet want to go on the record. The other is a hospital employee who is afraid of losing her job. I would like to hear from anyone who can provide me with proof that this occurring. The reason that I am asking is because in 2008, Jesus Esquivel reported that the Mexican drug cartels had formed a working relationship with Hamas, Hezbollah and other radical Islamic groups have become working associates. Esquivel also implicated the CIA as being involved as well. Is it so far-fetched to fear that ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah would transport deadly diseases, including Ebola into the United States?

    Again, back to predictive programming, this scenario was at one time the central plot of an entire season of the Fox TV show, 24, in season three, in which the main character, Jack Bauer, was tasked to intercept a virus attack directed at the U.S.
    Ebola is on the move in Africa where is has spread to seven countries. Further, many main airports, such as in London, are accepting travelers from these countries. From this point, the travelers are dispatched all over the world.

    The UN and Looming Health Crisis


    In the past week, I have written extensively about the growing presence of UN military vehicles on our soil. I have also speculated as to what would lead to the emergence and the “legitimization” of the UN operating as a police force on American soil. A pandemic would absolutely meet these qualifications.

    There are still many open questions, but we have a lot to be concerned about!

    http://www.dcclothesline.com/2014/06...uthern-border/




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