enterovirus

Close contact in the classroom is helping to spread new viral threat in New Jersey

NEW YORK (AP) -- For more than two months, health officials have been struggling to understand the size of a national wave of severe respiratory illnesses caused by an unusual virus. This week, they expect the wave to start looking a whole lot bigger.

As D-68 continues to spread, many parents are wondering why so many young children are getting sick now.

The family of Eli Waller, the 4-year-old Hamilton boy who died from enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68), has created a foundation in his memory to help special needs families pay for tuition, school supplies and other items for their kids.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A virus that has been causing severe respiratory illness across the country is responsible for the death of a 4-year-old boy, a state medical examiner determined.

Additional cases of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) were confirmed Wednesday in Burlington, Camden and Morris counties, bringing the total number of patients in New Jersey to seven, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Eighteen patients have visited Monmouth County medical facilities with symptoms similar to the respiratory illness known as enterovirus, a viral infection that has spread to at least 22 states, including New Jersey

New Jersey health professionals are on alert after receiving confirmation the state has its first case of a potentially dangerous respiratory illness known as enterovirus D68.

New Jersey seems to be in the clear for now, but a respiratory illness is causing quite a scare in other parts of the United States.