Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Deadly Virus Confirmed In 44 States And DC, Spreading Fast

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine With the chaos surrounding the first imported case of Ebola in the United States, many have missed the fact that the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated their website with yet another state listed as having at least one lab confirmed case of the deadly EV-D68 (aka EV-68, official name Enterovirus D68), bringing the total to 44 states and Washington DC. Those states are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. As the CDC website states clearly, they are only informing the public of states with at least one lab confirmed case in that state, without providing the number of actual cases in that state. Officials are also mystified over the the fact that while EV-D68 is listed as a "non-polio" enterovirus, multiple states are seeing "paralysis" as a symptom associated with this particular outbreak.



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