Windsor Hospital Suspect Respiratory Illness Has Entered Canada

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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A hospital in Windsor, Ont., has recently speculated that the respiratory virus moving through the U.S., which has made considerable number of children very sick, has now entered Canada. A statement issued by the Windsor Regional Hospital over the weekend, alleged that there was a “sudden increase” in pediatric patients at the emergency room for respiratory issues.

Windsor Regional Hospital mentioned in its statement that “although it has not been confirmed yet locally, there has been a sudden increase in pediatric patients across the mid-western states of the United States and some provinces in Canada with Non-Polio Enterovirus Infection: Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68).” Whereas, vice president of public affairs and communications for the hospital, Ron Foster, confirmed that samples have been sent to provincial public health labs and might take up to two weeks to confirm whether it is EV-D68. Meanwhile hundreds of children as young as six years old in several states, including Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky and Missouri have fallen ill from the respiratory virus, confirmed to be EV-D68, since mid-August. There are suspected outbreaks in several other states as well.

During a conference call last week, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Center for Disease Control, Anne Schuchat, mentioned that the situation is evolving quickly and “we are in a stage where it is difficult to say just how big this is, how long it will go on for and how widespread it will be,” alleging that there is no specific treatment for the virus.