An infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Omaha hopes to calm fears about a virus that has sickened more than a thousand children in at least 10 states. Dr. Jessica Snowden says this is an enterovirus, the same that causes the common cold. She says it does cause worse symptoms than a cold but for most children it will simply run its course.
Snowden says symptoms include wheezing, fever, vomiting and diarrhea. She recommends treating the symptoms like that of a cold.
Snowden says parents should be more on alert if their child suffers from asthma as the virus may hit them harder than others.
