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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. The test results are in, but questions still remain after a dozen children were treated at St. Mary Hospitalfor acute respiratory illness. The children were tested to determine if they had Enterovirus EV D68. Thursday the Commonwealth is still not able to confirm which of two respiratory viruses that have showed up positive on their screening tests for all eight of our first eight patient samples is the implicated virus in our patients. They are conducting further testing, Bon Secours spokeswoman Charlotte patagonia better sweater full zip coat birch1Perkins said. addition, samples from four of our sickest patients have been transmitted to the CDC labs in Atpatagonia better sweater pullover salelanta for further testing. Diane Woolard with the Virginia Department of Health explpatagonia laptop bag reviewained why it is taking so long to get the results, adding that it may be weeks before the results are in.
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Yesterday, St. Mary confirmed all 11 children treated at the hospital for acute respiratory illness were cleared to return home. A twpatagonia outlet store caelfth patient who arrived at the hospital Tuesday patagonia better sweater full zip coat birchnight with similar symptoms was treated and released.
The hospital told reporters in a press conference that they have continued to see an uptick in patients but that the upper respiratory infections are nowhere near the degree they saw earlier in the week.
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Doctors emphasize so far no child has died as a result of the disease in other states.
Doctors at VCU Medical Center and HCA Virginia have reported an increase in patients with symptoms of respiratory illness. Neither hospital has confirmed those patients have Enterovirus EV D68.
More than 10 states around the Midwest and Southeast have reported seeing similarly high numbers of hospitalizations for children with severe respiratory illnesses. The virus has sent more than 30 children a day to a Kansas City, Missouri, hospital, where about 15 patagonia better sweater full zip coat birch3percent of the youngsters were placed in intensive care, health officials said.
Doctors say they think the increase is due to a bug called Enterovirus D68, an uncommon type of enterovirus that seems to be exacerbating breathing problems in children with asthma.
Six states Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa have already confirmed cases of EV D68. Yet even in those states, not all samples came back positive for this specific type of enterovirus.
Nineteen of the 25 samples sent from Children Hospital Colorado were EV D68, said Dr. Christine Nyquist, medical director of infection control. Kentucky submitted 10 samples; five came back positive. In Missouri, 19 of 22 specimens sent to the CDC were confirmed to be EV D68.
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The problem is that there are more than 60 enteroviruses that are known to infect humans, according to the CDC; these viruses cause an estimated 10 million to 15 million illnesses each year. Symptoms can range from the snipatagonia guide jacket that zipsffles to stomach issues to a severe respiratory infection.
The average healthy adult gets two to threpatagonia guide jacket 6082e colds a year, the CDC says; children usually get more. They more at risk because their immune systems haven had a chance to build up immunity to these common viral infections.
The CDC doesn require state health departments to track these types of infections, since they are usually dealt with at home and patients recover with a little TLC. So getting a firm count of the number of people infected or what other states may be at risk for EV D68 is difficult.
