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Bizarre lung virus hospitalizing hundreds of kids across the Midwest, with 30 children admitted each day in Kansas City alone
 
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Bizarre lung virus hospitalizing hundreds of kids across the Midwest, with 30 children admitted each day in Kansas City alone


  • About 450 children have been treated at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City
  • Virus comes on as a cold before developing into respiratory distress 
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testing whether it is an Enterovirus D68 or EV-D68, a respiratory infection with varying symptons and levels of intensity
  • There is no proper treatment or vaccine for EV-D68
  • Doctors have been treating severe cases with ventilation
  • Outbreaks also reported in Colorado, Illinois and Ohio
 

 
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