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The hospital, unlike most hospitals in the United States, runs a test that can diagnose 10 different respiratory viruses, including influenza
but also rhinoviruses, parainfluenza viruses and other germs that make kids sick.
"The data showed us it wasn't H1N1 but instead was this rhinovirus infection," Coffin said.
Usually rhinoviruses cause an annoying but benign illness that looks a lot like flu, but with more runny nose and usually less of a fever. This one
was causing severe symptoms and even pneumonia.
"Some of these kids had really bad wheezing," Coffin said — so bad they had to be hospitalized and treated with a nebulizer, which delivers drugs
into the lungs to help keep oxygen in the blood.
"We don't terribly often have large numbers of children test positive for it," Coffin said.
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But she estimated that 500 were hospitalized in September and October, with no deaths that she knows of. Starting in mid-October, H1N1 swine flu
started to show up, too.
Information on rhinoviruses:
rhi·no·vi·rus (rīˌnō-vīˈrəs)
noun
Any of a group of picornaviruses that are causative agents of disorders of the respiratory tract, such as the common cold. Also called
coryzavirus.
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Although this seems incredibly non-threatening as in, it's just the common cold no big deal type of non-threatening, the most serious consequences to
this virus is that many children are more than likely completely being misdiagnosed.
Second, why is the hospital in Philadelphia only one of a handful of hospitals that do such screenings. It seems to me that doing any kind of culture
across a broad spectrum of illnesses would make identifying new strains, new illnesses, new outbreaks, that much easier.
Any thoughts? Or is the CDC now going to use the common cold to further push vaccines into our children?
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