<p>As if Ebola wasn’t enough to worry about:</p>
<p><a href=“Doctors see polio-like symptoms in enterovirus-68 patients – Boston Herald”>http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/09/doctors_see_polio_like_symptoms_in_enterovirus_68_patients</a></p>
<p>10 year old in Rhode Island dies from Enterovirus-68 complications (staph infection)
<a href=“CBS News - Breaking news, 24/7 live streaming news & top stories”>CBS News - Breaking news, 24/7 live streaming news & top stories;
<p>This is pretty scary - 4 year old NJ boy went to bed with no symptoms (except for unrelated pink-eye) and never woke up. Tests confirm it is Enterovirus-D68.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/n-boy-died-enterovirus-showed-symptoms-official-article-1.1964240”>Health News - New York Daily News;
<p>Local news coverage says he didn’t have any chronic respiratory condition (no asthma etc) - just a healthy little 4 year old.</p>
<p>Oh wow. This is much scarier than Ebola.</p>
<p>I think it is scarier than Ebola - it’s basically a cold that you might never know you have or it might paralyze or kill your kid AND it’s in a bunch of states.</p>
<p>Wash your hands.</p>
<p>^^ Don’t laugh, me & the kids always have hand sanitizer but lately I’ve started packing wet wipes and a pair of disposable vinyl gloves in my purse. I used a wipe to borrow a dvd from redbox (turns out you can select from the touch screen just fine using a wet wipe).</p>
<p>I read somewhere that enteroviruses typically are most active Sept - Oct-- if this one follows the pattern it should be less easy to catch by November (extremely clean fingers crossed).</p>
<p>Wash your hands is a good advice. If possible, stay home when not feeling well - even if you are not concerned about infecting others, think about yourself. When your immune system is weakened, it is easy for the other bugs to take roots. Some of the EV related deaths were caused by a co-infection. </p>
<p>Many folks with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome have been suffering from E68 for years and some decades. It is a tough condition to get a handle on. It’s like chronic mono or worse.</p>
<p>I went to the kids’ school today for a volunteer thing. One little kid had a fever and neck pain.
Also my HS senior told me she suddenly feels sick (sleeping now). </p>
<p>It has not been publicized whether the boy who died in NJ had a pre-existing condition. If not, there should be a panic :(</p>
<p>^^ According to ABC News, Fox News, and health officials in New Jersey, the child who died there has “no known health issues” </p>
<p>Meanwhile, another child with entervorius has died, this time in the state of Michigan:</p>
<p><a href=“Michigan confirms first death from enterovirus D68, a 21-month old toddler in Metro Detroit - mlive.com”>Michigan confirms first death from enterovirus D68, a 21-month old toddler in Metro Detroit - mlive.com;
<p>She had no underlying conditions and was previously healthy.</p>
<p>^^ That’s terrible. So this is the second death of a child with no asthma or anything? </p>
<p>A child died in Arizona – they are testing for EVD68</p>
<p>Yes. This is what people should actually be worried about. </p>
<p>That Michigan girl lived pretty close to me and we have confirmed cases at U of M hospital and yet both are getting very little press coverage. I know every step that we’re taking for Ebola though 8-| </p>
<p>It is wierd that there is so little attention on it. I would be in panic if my kids were as young as these. My HS senior is right now just getting over some kind of respiratory virus.</p>
<p>I don’t get it either - the lack of fear and outrage, I mean. Is it because Ebola is more “glamorous,” more ominous, than a disease that looks like a cold? Because to me, that’s what makes enterovirus even scarier - it seems like nothing and then it kills previously healthy children.</p>
<p>Just noting: the Stanford team hasn’t yet connected enterovirus and the polio. “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.” </p>
<p>I realize we’re waiting for enough info to make sense of all this but we need to stay current. This isn’t enough for me but does show how info shifts. It’s re: RI. <a href=“http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20141002-r.i.-health-agency-emphasizes-girl-with-enterovirus-died-of-staph-infection.ece”>http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20141002-r.i.-health-agency-emphasizes-girl-with-enterovirus-died-of-staph-infection.ece</a>. "At a news conference later Wednesday, he clarified: “We’re saying we’re sure that the child died of staph aureus sepsis, which is an overwhelming bacterial infection. We’re sure of that. The virus was present in the child’s body. We’re not sure how much the presence of the virus contributed — or didn’t contribute — to the child’s death.” </p>
<p>^^ True. However, the toddler in Michigan and the four-year-old in NJ died of enterovirus D68 - not sepsis or a concomitant bacterial infection. </p>