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Enterovirus Spike Sparks Concern
Published: Oct 31, 2014
By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today
Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Action points:
Note that enterovirus and rhinovirus species names recently were revised to remove host names and to append the type number to the species designation; hence, human enterovirus 68 (HEV-68, also previously called EV68) is now EV-D68.
Health care providers should consider EV-D68 as a possible cause of acute,unexplained severe respiratory illness. Enterovirus infections including EV-D68 are not reportable, but laboratory detections are reported voluntarily to the National Enterovirus Surveillance System, which is managed by CDC.
A spike in cases of severe respiratory illness among children and adolescents in late summer and early fall had health officials worried, especially after several cases of focal limb weakness appeared in the same population. But since the pathogen -- a rarely reported enterovirus dubbed EV-D68 -- was not nationally notifiable, the CDC had difficulty initially pinning down the extent of the problem...
Enterovirus Spike Sparks Concern
Published: Oct 31, 2014
By Michael Smith, North American Correspondent, MedPage Today
Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Action points:
Note that enterovirus and rhinovirus species names recently were revised to remove host names and to append the type number to the species designation; hence, human enterovirus 68 (HEV-68, also previously called EV68) is now EV-D68.
Health care providers should consider EV-D68 as a possible cause of acute,unexplained severe respiratory illness. Enterovirus infections including EV-D68 are not reportable, but laboratory detections are reported voluntarily to the National Enterovirus Surveillance System, which is managed by CDC.
A spike in cases of severe respiratory illness among children and adolescents in late summer and early fall had health officials worried, especially after several cases of focal limb weakness appeared in the same population. But since the pathogen -- a rarely reported enterovirus dubbed EV-D68 -- was not nationally notifiable, the CDC had difficulty initially pinning down the extent of the problem...