While our attention was diverted from the Ebola epidemic, enterovirus D68 has now infected people in 47 states. The pResident’s policy to have open borders continues to allow diseases (and terrorists) into our country unchecked. As always, we only have to ask “why”? And then we have to ask why we let our “leaders” use us for political pawns in their own Game of Thrones.
David DeGerolamo
Enterovirus D68 cases in the US top 1,000
Since the late summer, the United States and Canada have experienced an outbreak of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) that has been linked to severe respiratory illness, including several deaths.
In the US, the number of confirmed cases topped 1,000, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. From mid-August to October 27, 2014, CDC or state publichealth laboratories have confirmed a total of 1,035 people in 47 states and the District of Columbia with respiratory illness caused by EV-D68. Only Nevada, Alaska and Hawaii have yet to report a confirmed case.
Of the more than 2,000 specimens the CDC has assayed, about half have tested positive for EV-D68, and about a third have tested positive for a different enterovirus or a rhinovirus.
