The Enterovirus D-68 is causing breathing problems for kids across the country, with a case found in Connecticut. It may have already spread to children in Massachusetts. "If the child is breathing very hard, gasping, if the parents are able to look at the breathing muscles above the clavicle or in between the ribs, and if the muscles are working extra hard, that's a patient that should be brought to the Emergency Department," said Dr. Michael Agus of Boston Children's Hospital. Agus says more than 150 children have already come to the hospital with similar symptoms. The three most severe cases used ventilators to help with breathing.
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