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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Mon Sep 8, 2014, 07:33 AM Sep 2014

Fever, coughing, mouth blisters: Hundreds of Midwest kids hospitalized with mystery virus

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/06/fever-coughing-mouth-blisters-hundreds-of-midwest-kids-hospitalized-with-mystery-virus/

Fever, coughing, mouth blisters: Hundreds of Midwest kids hospitalized with mystery virus
By David Ferguson
Saturday, September 6, 2014 11:12 EDT

Doctors in Illinois are attempting to establish a connection between a respiratory ailment that has sickened hundred of school-age children in the state and a virus called Enterovirus 68 that has sent more than 300 children to the hospital in Missouri.

According to Reuters, hospitals in Illinois have placed age restrictions on visitors in an attempt to keep the highly infectious virus from passing from child to child.

In late August, hospitals in St. Louis and Kansas City reported a sharp increase in children with the kind of wheezing and coughing normally associated with asthma, high fevers, mouth blisters, skin rashes and body aches.

Symptoms come on, said WQAD, like a common cold, but Enterovirus 68 — also known as HEV 68 — but progresses into more severe symptoms. One hospital in Quincy, Illinois, saw more than 70 children come in with symptoms of the virus over Labor Day weekend.

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Fever, coughing, mouth blisters: Hundreds of Midwest kids hospitalized with mystery virus (Original Post) unhappycamper Sep 2014 OP

what a poorly written story. dixiegrrrrl Sep 2014 #1

Journalism standards just aint there no more Warpy Sep 2014 #2

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

1. what a poorly written story.

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 10:02 AM

Sep 2014

The headline says "mystery " virus, then the article names the virus.

Plus the "eats,shoots, and leaves" sentence:
"with the kind of wheezing and coughing normally associated with asthma, high fevers, mouth blisters, skin rashes and body aches.

I was unaware that coughing is associated with skin rashes and body aches.

for all that, the kids are going to need to avoid that natural incubator of diseases known as a school.

Warpy

(111,271 posts)

2. Journalism standards just aint there no more

Reply to dixiegrrrrl (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 02:47 PM

Sep 2014

and the writers are cute kids right out of school instead of grizzled old farts who got their articles snipped to ribbons by proofreaders who returned them drowned in red ink, shrieking "REWRITE!"

I think there are few proofreaders left in the business and the editors are cute kids two to five years out of school, themselves.

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