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Local Hospital Warns Respiratory Illness in Children
Posted: Sep 02, 2014 7:07 PM EDT Updated: Sep 02, 2014 7:07 PM EDT
By Tiffany McCall - bio | email
Schools has been in session for three weeks in Mobile County and already some students have ended up at the USA's Children's and Women's Hospital. That's because of a virus, associated with the common cold, called the enterovirus.
The virus has been around, but doctors say what's new, is the way it's attacking children's respiratory systems.
"It's caused a lot of children who have never wheezed before to wheeze and a lot of our children who have a history with asthma or wheezing to require hospitalization. So we've been seeing large numbers through ER with this virus," said Dr. Jason Richerson...
6 cases of enterovirus 68 reported at USA Children's & Women's Hospital; officials treating large numbers of patients in respiratory distress
By Sally Pearsall Ericson | sericson@al.com
updated September 10, 2014 at 3:25 PM
MOBILE, Alabama -- Six cases of children with the enterovirus 68 respiratory illness have been confirmed at University of South Alabama Children's & Women's Hospital, where officials have seen high volumes of children with respiratory illness in recent weeks.
The Mobile County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that six patients from USA Children's & Women's Hospital had tested positive for the virus.
Two doctors from USA Children's & Women's Hospital held a media conference Wednesday to describe the symptoms and the unusually high numbers of patients affected -- a total of 345 patients since Aug. 11...
