Tuesday, September 9, 2014

"Serious respiratory illness hits hundreds of kids"

"Hundreds of children in more than 10 states have been sickened by a severe respiratory illness that public health officials say may be caused by an uncommon virus similar to the germ that causes the common cold."

"Nearly 500 children have been treated at one hospital alone — Children's Mercy in Kansas City, Missouri — and some required intensive care, according to authorities."

Where are the "unaccompanied minors" that have not been sent back to their country of origin?

Exit question...

Are the new immigrants going to the schools in the states where these kids are getting sick?

10 comments:

The Dude said...
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edutcher said...

To ask the question is to answer it.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

On those ecology lecture disks, the professor guy talks about invasive species in a way I never heard before.

He refers to life forms -- plants and animals -- existing in an ecosystem where they "did not evolve."

It throws everything else out of whack that had millennia to strike a sustainable balance.

Shouting Thomas said...

Apparently, one of those all night battles on the interwebs occurred here, of which I am unaware?

The Dude said...
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Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I went to sleep. I got to do that sometimes.

KCFleming said...

Dammit Lem, you can't sleep!

Anyways, I had the same thought about the origin of the infection. Normally, the CDC would be all over this, and the investigation into its origin would be fast and complete.

I'm betting the CDC will be quiet as Ray Rice's girlfriend after round one.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE!!
JUST THE USUAL WINTER INFECTION!

It'll be much harder to hide the multi-resistant TB they've brought in.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

"It's important to remember that these infections are very common," said Dr. Anne Schuchat. Schuchat is the assistant surgeon general for the U.S. Public Health Service and the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.

And in the next breath...

But it's possible that the relatively low number of reports might be because EV-D68 is hard to identify.

"It's one that we don't know as much about as we would like," Schuchat said.

Unknown said...

quick - get em on Obamacare/HillaryCare/BigLovinggov-care. That'll save em.

Michael Haz said...

It's hard to know with certainty where the infections come from, because the Obama administration refuses to say where the illegal immigrants have been placed.