US infants are falling sick with parechovirus, which triggers fever, delirium, seizures, and sepsis | Businessinsider

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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.

The federal health agency is urging doctors to test for PeV in infants who may have such signs and symptoms"without another known cause."fewer than 50 parechovirus cases across the countryIn 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.

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.

"It's important in the first months of life to keep your baby away from anyone who is sick," Dr. Thomas Murray from Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital told WNTH.

 

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