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Not sure this belongs in the Politics section but it seems to be the best fit. Wondered when somebody was going to put this together. Seems kinda obvious in retrospect. Last count was 45 states in about two weeks. Seems unlikely it would spread so fast by itself. Yes, it is from a blog, not a "REAL" News source, but they, (The Real News) can't be that far behind them. ==== Link to Illegal Immigrant Children? Enteroviruses commonly circulate in the U.S. during summer and fall. EV-D68 was first identified in California in 1962. Over the past thirty years, only small numbers were reported in the U.S. The CDC hasn’t suggested reasons for the current uptick or its origin. Without that answer, some question whether the disease is being spread by the presence of tens of thousands of illegal immigrant children from Central America admitted to the U.S. in the past year. The origin could be entirely unrelated. However, a study published in Virology Journal,1 found EV-D68 among some of the 3,375 young, ill people tested in eight Latin American countries, including the Central American nations of El Salvador and Nicaragua, in 2013. (See Fig. 3) http://www.virologyj.com/content/10/1/305/figure/F3 Though the U.S. government is keeping secret the locations of the illegal immigrant children, there are significant numbers of them in both cities in which the current outbreak was first identified, Kansas City, Missouri and Chicago, Illinois, according to local advocates and press reports. CDC list of states with confirmed EV-D68 cases2 The EV-D68 outbreak was first recognized3 after Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri notified CDC on August 19 of an increase in severe respiratory illnesses. Four days later, on August 23, the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital notified CDC of a similar increase. ===== The link. http://sharylattkisson.com/polio-like-outbreak-claims-fifth-life-in-u-s Some other interesting stuff is in the article as well info on how to keep your kids from getting this virus. Or at least doing the best you can with it seeing as it mostly attacks children. Ebola is getting the big headlines while in fact more people are dying from this one. That, and kids being paralyzed. 1) http://www.virologyj.com/content/10/1/305 2) http://www.cdc.gov/non-polio-enterovirus/outbreaks/EV-D68-states.html 3) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6336a4.htm