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Denver Latest City Hit By Viral Respiratory Infection That Targets Kids
A respiratory illness that almost exclusively infects children and for which there is no vaccine has struck Denver, Colorado, the latest in a series of infection clusters in the Midwest; one Denver hospital alone has treated more than 900 children for the illness since August 18, though no deaths have been reported.
Health officials believe that the sickness is related to a rare virus called human enterovirus 68 (HEV68), the [Denver] Post says. HEV68, first seen in California in 1962, and an unwelcome but highly infrequent visitor to communities worldwide since then, is a relative of the virus linked to the common cold (human rhinoviruses, or HRV), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ... HEV68, which almost uniquely affects children, tends to first cause cold-like symptoms, including body aches, sneezing and coughing. These mild complaints then worsen into life-threatening breathing problems that are all the more dangerous to children with asthma. Since viruses do not respond to antibiotics, hospitals have treated the illness with asthma therapies.
There are vaccines for many of the most dangerous viruses. That's why nobody gets smallpox any more and very few people get polio or measles.
I have a feeling most docs will give out antibiotics for this anyway. It helps makes everyone feel like something is being done.
In most cases they are prescribed to treat secondary Sinus infections that result from the virus. I, for example, get a sinus infection every time I get a cold. Literally, every time. I was genetically cursed with terrible closed off sinuses that easily become infected, and as a result it's a matter of course that I get antibiotics when I get a cold. They do normal inspections to make sure I really have an infection, and I always do. Some people are just like that.
From the CDC's Smallpox Fact Sheet (http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/overview/disease-facts.asp): "The last case of smallpox in the United States was in 1949."
Stop spreading racist lies.
Yup, and now we have higher pneumonia rates as a result. Better for the herd? Yup. For the individual patient? Well, maybe not quite as much.
It's a tricky problem - you don't want antibiotic-resistant strains proliferating, but you don't want patients to spread or die of easily treated diseases, either. Evolution, in this case, sucks.
That is all.
I had the same exact problem. In my case, I had sinus surgery to remove a polyp. Getting a cold meant my sinuses would close up and remain closed from an infection that would soon follow. 18 years later, I haven't had a single sinus infection.
" Now, the Executive branch has been ceded the right of law to pass regulations,"
false. But hey, fix news loves misrepresenting that.
" form of government where ONLY congress makes law at the federal level,"
Every president has issued executive orders, and this includes founding fathers that became president.
You do know that those agency you list where created, funded, and given their authority by congress, right?
Some of us have read history. Have read about why those agency's came to be, and what life was like before them.
For the most part, thy are needed to have a functioning society.
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