KS/MO: HPeV3 vrus is found in 14 Kansas City area newborns

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Source: http://www.kansascity.com/living/health-fitness/article1207703.html

Virus is found in 14 Kansas City area newborns
By ALAN BAVLEY
The Kansas City Star
08/12/2014 8:06 PM

Health authorities on both sides of the state line are investigating infections among 14 Kansas City area infants with a virus that can cause meningitis, as well as widespread inflammation, serious enough to require intensive care.

The condition of the infants was not immediately available, but many have had to be hospitalized.

Cases began in June and were first reported to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment by Shawnee Mission Medical Center. Additional cases have been reported by Children?s Mercy Hospital...

...Nine of the Kansas City area cases have been among infants who are Kansas residents. Five have been among Missouri residents.

The infections have been caused by HPeV3. It?s one of a group of viruses, called human parechoviruses, that have emerged in recent years as an important cause of a variety of ailments in very young children...

 

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Re: KS/MO: HPeV3 vrus is found in 14 Kansas City area newborns

Source: http://www.kansascity.com/living/health-fitness/article1217603.html

?A scary time? for newborns and parents during local outbreak of virus
By ALAN BAVLEY
The Kansas City Star
08/13/2014 8:51 PM

Just six days after Stasiya was born, Stefanie Vasquez of Olathe knew something was wrong with her new baby girl.

Stasiya wasn?t interested in eating. She had a hard time staying awake. She made whimpering sounds.

?Every time I picked her up, she cried like she was in pain,? Vasquez said.

When Vasquez took Stasiya to her pediatrician last week, the infant?s temperature was 102 degrees and her pulse was racing at 255. An ambulance was called to rush her to the intensive care unit at Children?s Mercy Hospital...