Severe respiratory illness spreads to Northeast

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The severe respiratory virus believed to have sickened hundreds of U.S. children in Midwestern and Western states has now spread to the Northeast, health officials report.
The New York State Department of Health confirmed on Friday more than a dozen cases of infection with Enterovirus D68, which sometimes requires hospitalization, especially for children with asthma.
And on Saturday, the Connecticut Department of Public Health said it had received reports from two hospitals in different parts of the state of clusters of severe respiratory illness among young children that could be due to Enterovirus D68. The department said it was awaiting test results from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to confirm whether the infections are enterovirus.
Cases of Enterovirus D68 first began appearing in the Midwest in August. While hundreds of suspected cases have been reported, the CDC has only confirmed more than 90 cases in seven states: Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and now New York. New York is the first state in the Northeast with confirmed cases.

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