CDC Warns That Dangerous Virus, Life Threatening To Babies, Is Spreading Across US

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Federal health officials in the US are warning doctors and parents that a dangerous virus, that can be life-threatening for young infants, is spreading across the US.

The Centre for Disease Control and Prvention (CDC) say that the parechovirus triggers fevers, seizures, confusion and other “sepsis-like” issues and is currently circulating in “multiple” US states.

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Officials have now urged doctors to test for the virus in babies who display symptoms

Is it at all possible that this parechovirus is connected to the covid jabs that are now being administered to children….or the ones that some mothers had whilst they were pregnant?

Insider reports: So far, the CDC has only collected positive samples of PeV-A3, which is the specific type of parechovirus that is most often associated with severe disease. At least one newborn is dead in Connecticut.

Baby Ronan was less than two weeks old when his mom starting noticing he was becoming “very angry,” and “crying a lot,” WTNH New Haven reported.

His chest turned red, and then his face too, and at 14 days old he was admitted to the hospital, where he started having seizures. At 34 days old, the child died.

There is no known treatment for parechovirus. Older children who get infected may “only have mild illness,” like a cold, while others may remain completely asymptomatic during their infection, and feel nothing at all, the CDC says.

CDC is telling doctors to be alert for signs of parechovirus

The CDC is urging pediatricians across the US to consider that parechovirus may be the culprit when very young patients present with unexplained:

fever
sepsis-like syndrome
seizures
or meningitis (common symptoms include: high fever, irritability, loss of appetite, and sleepiness)

The federal health agency is urging doctors to test for PeV in infants who may have such signs and symptoms “without another known cause.”

US surveillance for parechovirus is spotty: the CDC typically logs fewer than 50 parechovirus cases across the country every year.

In toddlers under 5, common symptoms can include an upper respiratory tract infection, fever, and rash. Most “children are infected by the time they start kindergarten,” the CDC says.

Illnesses in toddlers and older kids are typically mild, but there are at least a few reports of children as old as 8 weathering severe infections of parechovirus, with fevers, rash, blurred vision, trouble walking, headaches, and confusion/altered mental status.

Parechovirus are generally most dangerous for babies younger than 3 months old, especially newborns who are younger than one month old, like Ronan was. Spinal fluid which is taken from infants who have a parechovirus often has few to no infection-fighting white blood cells in it.