CDC Confirms Case of Enterovirus in Connecticut

The CDC has confirmed a case of Enterovirus-D68 infection in Connecticut.

The state Department of Public Health Wednesday received confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of a case involving a Connecticut child.

The child was recently hospitalized, has improved and been discharged.

State health officials said it is likely this virus is already causing respiratory illnesses in many places across Connecticut because of this confirmed case and reports of similar illnesses involving children at other Connecticut hospitals, and confirmed EV-D68 cases in New York State and New Jersey.

DPH is working with health care providers and local health departments to closely monitor for increases in respiratory illnesses in hospitals across the state.

Laboratory specimens from patients with respiratory illnesses that could be due to EV-D68 at four other Connecticut hospitals are in the process of being sent to the CDC for confirmatory testing.  

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