alan1
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Virus hitting U.S. may be tip of iceberg - CNN.com
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Just a guess/theory by me,
but these days, all the schools and daycare's are heavily using antibacterial/antiviral hand cleansers and making kids constantly clean their hands with them to avoid germs. The kids aren't getting casual exposure to germs and naturally building up antibodies in their health system. So now, they finally do get exposed to something and their body has no antibodies (white blood cells) to fight it off.
It mainly affects the young, because us older folk have built up resistance because we had minor exposure in our past and already developed antibodies that can adapt to fight it off.
Kind of like when the Europeans came to America. The Europeans introduced virus's and bacteria's to the Native Americans that they had never been exposed to before and it killed shit-tons of them with minimal affect on the Europeans.
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CNN said:A respiratory virus is sending hundreds of children to hospitals throughout the Midwest and beyond, health officials say.
The unusually high number of hospitalizations reported could be "just the tip of the iceberg in terms of severe cases," said Mark Pallansch, a virologist and director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Viral Diseases.
Twelve states have contacted the CDC for assistance in investigating clusters of enterovirus: Alabama, Colorado, Michigan, Georgia, Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Utah. Four -- Colorado, Illinois, Missouri and Iowa -- have confirmed cases of Enterovirus D68, also known as EV-D68.
Just a guess/theory by me,
but these days, all the schools and daycare's are heavily using antibacterial/antiviral hand cleansers and making kids constantly clean their hands with them to avoid germs. The kids aren't getting casual exposure to germs and naturally building up antibodies in their health system. So now, they finally do get exposed to something and their body has no antibodies (white blood cells) to fight it off.
It mainly affects the young, because us older folk have built up resistance because we had minor exposure in our past and already developed antibodies that can adapt to fight it off.
Kind of like when the Europeans came to America. The Europeans introduced virus's and bacteria's to the Native Americans that they had never been exposed to before and it killed shit-tons of them with minimal affect on the Europeans.