OBSERVATION: the respiratory virus with the potential to lead to rare diseases generates concern
OBSERVATION: the respiratory virus with the potential to lead to rare diseases generates concern
OBSERVATION: the respiratory virus with the potential to lead to rare diseases generates concern
Transcription for The respiratory virus with the potential to lead to rare diseases generates concern
children. Dozens of cases of acute or acute flaccid myelitis have been reported in at least 16 different states. The New York State Department of Health is warning parents to be alert for a respiratory illness that could lead to the disease. The Chief Medical Correspondent of ABC, Dr. Jen Ashton, joins us from London with what parents should know. Dr. Jen, this seems a lot more frightening than a seasonal flu. What exactly are these two different diseases and how are they connected? Well, let me explain it for you because we are talking about a relatively common enterovirus that gives you generally mild symptoms such as common cold, sneezing, cough, runny nose, maybe muscular and muscular pains. Occasionally, it has occasionally been associated with acute or acute myelitis. Now that it gives symptoms very similar to polio, weakness or paralysis in the arms and legs, polio and enterovirus are part of the same family, but maybe now, in the cases we are seeing in the country, only one has been confirmed that is associated. with enterovirus. While there are reasons for concern and public health officials are watching this, there is no cause for panic. In medicine we say that an increase in the risk of a rare event is still a rare event. Well, that's comforting. What should parents do to protect their children against EV? Hand hygiene. Very very important. If you are near someone who is sick, be sure to wash your hands, disinfecting the surfaces of hot spots. Use common sense precautions. The same precautions we talked about to reduce the risk of influenza. Reduce the risk of enterovirus. All right, thank you very much, Dr. Jen. It's good to know about you. Sometimes I hear people sing "Happy Birthday" while they wash their hands. If I could have my 4-year-old daughter wash her hands before she sucks her thumb. Then we would be in good shape. We are working on it.
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