Kansas: Enterovirus causing respiratory illness in Wichita

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.kwch.com/news/local-news/respiratory-virus-affecting-wichita-kids/27866924


Respiratory virus affecting Wichita kids
POSTED: 06:40 PM CDT Sep 03, 2014 UPDATED: 06:41 PM CDT Sep 03, 2014

WICHITA, Kan. -

The virus is early and more aggressive.

Doctors in Wichita are treating an unusual respiratory virus that's putting some kids in the hospital...

...Here's what parents need to know: The virus will have many of the same symptoms as a cold, but you need to see your doctor if your child has a fever that won't respond to Motrin or Tylenol or if your child is having trouble breathing.

Children are responding to hospital treatment--which includes giving asthma medicine even if they don't have asthma.

 

[Shiloh]

Re: Kansas: Enterovirus causing respiratory illness in Wichita

Source: http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/Respiratory-Virus-Hits-Record-High-In-Topeka-274400131.html


Respiratory Virus Hits Record High In Topeka
Updated: Mon 5:24 PM, Sep 08, 2014
By: Nick Viviani

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) -- The Topeka area is seeing a surge in respiratory illness in children.

Topeka's Stormont-Vail Health Care said it tested 98 people in the month of August for Rhino Virus and Entero Virus. Forty-eight came back positive and of those 35 were in children.

All of the kids were admitted - most of them to the pediatric unit, but some needed to be seen in pediatric intensive care and neonatal intensive care units...

 

[Tonka]

Source: http://www.kmbc.com/news/teen-battles-to-walk-again-after-mysterious-illness/30968480
[h=1]Teen battles to walk again after mysterious illness[/h] [h=2]Doctors rush to figure out cause of Billy Sticklen's acute flaccid myelitis[/h]

 

[Emily]

Billy is one of the children mentioned in articles here:

https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/...68-kansas-city

The hospital's infectious disease specialist said EV-D68 was not associated with his case or their 2 other AFM cases. This is the hospital that first recognized the EV-D68 respiratory disease outbreak. She said that the paralysis cases remain a medical mystery they are investigating.