The disease appears to be located almost exclusively focused on children
Schools open a new group of students, and all germs, hundreds of children in Denver coincided with unusual and severe respiratory disease, the communities in the United States hit in recent weeks.
The leaders of the Children's Hospital of Colorado told the Denver Post that the hospital treated more than 900 children from the disease August 18, similar outbreaks in geographical groups in the Midwest reported earlier this summer, including St. Louis.
Health officials say the disease is a rare virus called human enterovirus 68 (HEV68) based, told the Post. HEV68, first in California in 1962, and unwanted visitors, but very rare in communities worldwide since then, is a relative of the cold virus (human rhinovirus, HRV), according to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention of disease.
HEV68 that affects almost exclusively children, tends to cause cold symptoms, including body aches, sneezing and coughing. These minor complaints after aggravate fatal respiratory problems are especially dangerous for children with asthma. Since viruses are not susceptible to antibiotics have hospitals with asthma therapies were treated.
Although very uncomfortable, no deaths have been reported this summer bud.
There is no vaccine for HEV68 and health authorities are encouraging the same practices that protect against colds: keep your hands and wash them often.