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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.
What segment of the population do you imagine investigates cures for things like this?
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I have a feeling most docs will give out antibiotics for this anyway. It helps makes everyone feel like something is being done.
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And then there are gene-based therapies, x-rays, proton beams, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, radioisotope treatments, as well as vaccines, blood and bone marrow transpants. Nanotech is coming soon.
Yes, they're all crude and "not having an advanced understanding" (whatever the fuck that means) but they are EFFECTIVE.
As far as pandemics are concerned, where is it written that people in first world countries can't get difficult-to-treat illnesses transmitted while in close proximity to each other?
What do actually suggest that is not "crude" by your definition. Reiki? Homeopathy? Hoping it will all go away if we pray to this deity or that statue?
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Yes, that must be it. You'd better call the Children's Hospital in Colorado, since apparently the qualified medical staff there have no idea what they're talking about.
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(Different AC) What original AC is saying is that our current medicine doesn't resemble Star Trek style tricorder, hypospray, targeted transporter non-penetrative surgery that we might expect from a Star Trek future. We drop blanket bombs into our bodies with the expectation that the evil bits will die a whole lot faster than the good bits, and by the time the evil bits are dead, the good bits are still in a good enough shape to regenerate. Sure, we made some progress (that proton beam sounds like a thing that does not affect much around its target), but we still have a long way to go (why can't we cure an appendix when it becomes infected? or tonsils? they have their uses you know, even though we can survive just fine without them).
That's one way to look at it.
The other way would be with facts and science.
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