Deathly virus starts like an innocent cold

By Guy Derla

Last Tuesday, my eye fell on an article in the Washington Post who reported that an apparently common cold virus (adenovirus) has mutated into a killer strain quite unexpectedly.

In the State Oregon in the U.S. it recently caused a death rate as high as 23%!

The American government run Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC, has been tracking the virus over the past year and has recorded outbreaks in Oregon, Texas, Washington State and New York.
The virus, first discovered in 1955 in The Netherlands as the adenovirus 14, has recently mutated into a more severe virulent form.

The Frightening thing about this virus is that it's so strong that it can kill strong, young and otherwise healthy people, rather than the usual "at risk" populations of the very young and the very old. There's no way to know if this virus will spark an epidemic, or whether it will die down and disappear for momentarily.

Those who have survived the virus, say that it came on like a usual cold.
But then, instead of getting better at the usual 4-7 day point, their symptoms got worse and turned into high fevers, coughs, and difficult breathing.
Some people have even required mechanical ventilation in Intensive Care to help them breathe.

Could this be, like the in my earlier post mentioned acinetobacter baumannii, next avian flu (bird flu) or SARS -like outbreak and turn into a real pandemic? Will it come our way?

It makes you think when you have a stuffy nose next time!

Source: RevolutionHealth