baby coughing sickFlickr/myllissaA baby coughing.
Hundreds of children in different parts of the U.S. have been hospitalized by a mysterious respiratory virus.
The virus is sweeping the Midwest and has also hit Colorado and some states in the South.
CNN reports that one Kansas City hospital has seen up to 30 children a day come in for treatment for the virus, which is similar to a cold, but with worse symptoms. About 15% of those children are placed in intensive care. The hospital has seen more than 300 cases so far.
On Friday, a hospital in Illinois starting banning children under the age of 12 from visiting in an effort to contain the outbreak, according to Reuters. More than 70 children in Quincy, Illinois, got sick with the virus over Labor Day weekend.
Cases of the virus have also shown up in Ohio, where hospitals in Columbus have seen unusually high numbers of children seeking treatment for respiratory illness, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
Doctors have sent out samples to be tested for human enterovirus 68, or HEV68, a rare illness that affects children more than adults. It's not yet clear what the particular virus is in this outbreak.
Clusters of HEV68 have been identified in parts of the U.S. before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The virus is similar to the rhinovirus, which causes the common cold.
HEV68 symptoms include fever, runny nose, sneezing, cough, mouth blisters, body and muscle aches and rash. The virus usually isn't fatal.
The virus spreads like the common cold, so to avoid being infected, wash hands frequently and avoid sharing cups and utensils with those who are sick.


3,000 “Ebola Martyrs” Warned Ready To Strike America

By The European Union Times
A new report released in the Kremlin today by the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) is stating that the reason(s) for President Obama’s “mysterious and unscheduled” return to the White House this weekend is due the United States facing an “apocalyptic attack” from an estimated 3,000 “Ebola Martyrs” who are already in America and warned are “ready to strike”.
According to this report, SVR intelligence analysts became aware of the attack planned by these “Ebola Martyrs” against the US from their “monitoring” of a Islamic State (IS) [also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)] terror cell operating out of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia located in Washington D.C.
In the past few weeks, this report continues, this IS terror cell has had “total freedom of movement” around Washington D.C. with no US intelligence service monitoring of them and have brazenly taken and posted photos of their: 1.) flag pinned to the White House fence [top photo right] and 2.) One of their operatives holding a letter against the backdrop of a US government building [photo 2nd right] that reads: