Why is the ‘summer cold’ getting so many kids so ill? It’s an annual rite: school begins, viruses spread and the kids bring home a bug. We all expect our kids to catch some type of germ in early September, but we don’t ever think we’ll have to send them to the hospital, or that they’ll become so sick they’ll need intensive care and oxygen. But that’s what’s happening in several states. Thousands of children across the Midwest have been sent to the hospital with a severe respiratory virus. Researchers say that the high number of children needing hospital care may only be the “tip of the iceberg” and are warning the concerned public that they don’t yet know why this particular enterovirus outbreak is […] Read More