It Was A Dream Come True For A Little Girl Battling Cancer, A Day She Will Never Forget

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 class="storytitle" style="font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 32px !important; font-weight: 400; line-height: 44px !important;"> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">It was a dream come true for a young girl battling leukemia.</span></h2> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <img alt="make a wish unicorn hawaii" class="img-blogger" src="http://www.sunnyskyz.com/uploads/2014/09/yahud-unicorn1a.jpg" style="max-width: 600px;" /><br /> <span class="photo-desc" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; font-style: oblique;">Credit: Kevin Lubera</span></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> Six year-old Addison has always wanted to meet a Unicorn, which she believes only live in the rain forests of Hawaii. Thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, they flew her from Georgia to Oahu for her own personal fairy tale.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <img alt="make a wish unicorn hawaii" class="img-blogger" src="http://www.sunnyskyz.com/uploads/2014/09/iv2qr-unicorn.jpg" style="max-width: 600px;" /><br /> <span class="photo-desc" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; font-style: oblique;">Credit: Kevin Lubera</span></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> Actor Alvin Chan helped develop a storyline that would take Addison on an adventure requiring her to find the sweetest fruit and the prettiest flower before singing a song to release the unicorn and rescuing a kidnapped queen.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <img alt="make a wish unicorn hawaii" class="img-blogger" src="http://www.sunnyskyz.com/uploads/2014/09/s59i3-unicorn2.jpg" style="max-width: 600px;" /><br /> <span class="photo-desc" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; font-style: oblique;">Credit: Kevin Lubera</span></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> After spending a day as a magical princess and completing her quest, <a href="http://goo.gl/0JHfMn" style="color: #0099ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Addison said</a>, "It was happily ever after."</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <img alt="make a wish unicorn hawaii" class="img-blogger" src="http://www.sunnyskyz.com/uploads/2014/09/pbih8-unicorn3.jpg" style="max-width: 600px;" /><br /> <span class="photo-desc" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; font-style: oblique;">Credit: Kevin Lubera</span></div> </div>

It Was A Dream Come True For A Little Girl Battling Cancer, A Day She Will Never Forget

It was a dream come true for a young girl battling leukemia. Credit: Kevin Lubera Six year-old Addison has always wanted to meet a Un...

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Bill Gates Makes The Largest Donation Ever Toward A Humanitarian Cause

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 class="storytitle" style="font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 32px !important; font-weight: 400; line-height: 44px !important;"> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged </span><a href="http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2014/09/Gates-Foundation-Commits-$50%20Million-to-Support-Emergency-Response-to-Ebola" style="color: #0099ff; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">$50 million</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> to fight the viral outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, the largest donation ever toward a humanitarian cause.</span></h2> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <img alt="Bill Gates ebola donation" class="img-blogger" src="http://www.sunnyskyz.com/uploads/2014/09/sn1ma-bill-gates.jpg" style="max-width: 600px;" /><br /><span class="photo-desc" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; font-style: oblique;">AP / Getty Images</span></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> The funds would immediately benefit United Nations agencies and international organizations involved in containing and treating the virus, allowing them to purchase necessary medical supplies and increase emergency operations.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> From the foundation's total pledge, $5 million has already gone toward the World Health Organization (WHO), while another $5 million has been allocated for UNICEF efforts in some of the hardest hit regions of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> The fight against Ebola has officially found a deep-pocketed ally in the world's richest man.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <em>Source: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/12/bill-gates-foundation-ebola_n_5811592.html" style="color: #0099ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Huff Post</a></em></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

Bill Gates Makes The Largest Donation Ever Toward A Humanitarian Cause

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged  $50 million  to fight the viral outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, the largest donatio...

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Build Your Dream Home For Under $40,000 In Just 4 Days

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 class="storytitle" style="font-family: Oswald, sans-serif; font-size: 32px !important; font-weight: 400; line-height: 44px !important;"> <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Four days and a wireless screwdriver are all you need to build the structure of a Pop-Up House. The house, compiled of insulating blocks and wooden panels, delivers affordable thermal insulation like you'd never believe.</span></h2> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <img alt="Pop-up house" class="img-blogger" src="http://www.sunnyskyz.com/uploads/2014/09/w8jwz-pop-up-house1.jpg" style="max-width: 600px;" /><br /><span class="photo-desc" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; font-style: oblique;">popup-house.com/</span></div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> Multipod Studio has patented a unique approach to passive construction that delivers outstanding thermal insulation at an affordable cost. No special tools required, the house is assembled using lightweight and recyclable materials for quick installation. The materials used are inexpensive so the cost remains unbeatable and the thermal envelope created means no additional heating is necessary. The first prototype of this new type of passive house has bloomed in the pine valleys of Southern France.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> The Pop-Up House is an innovative concept that aims to challenge passive house construction, with all of the qualities of tomorrow's homes.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <br /></div> </div>

Build Your Dream Home For Under $40,000 In Just 4 Days

Four days and a wireless screwdriver are all you need to build the structure of a Pop-Up House. The house, compiled of insulating blocks a...

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Friendship Finds A Way

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="pw pw-widget ra1-pw-classicWidget ra1-pw_size_small pw-layout-horizontal pw-counter-horizontal pw-widget-look-native" style="font-family: Verdana, Tahoma !important; font-size: 1px !important; line-height: 1px !important; margin-top: 7px;"> <a class="pw-button pw-button-facebook button-type-looknative pw-size-small pw-button-counter-horizontal look-native" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="background-attachment: initial !important; background-clip: initial !important; background-image: none !important; background-origin: initial !important; background-position: initial !important; background-repeat: initial !important; background-size: initial !important; border: none !important; box-sizing: content-box; color: #0099ff; display: inline-block !important; height: auto !important; line-height: 12px !important; margin: 0px 10px 1px 0px !important; outline: none; padding: 0px !important; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="pw-button-type-looknative" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-clip: padding-box; background-color: #435fac; background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(74, 103, 183) 0px, rgb(60, 86, 162) 100%); border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-color: rgb(72, 101, 181) rgb(45, 68, 135) rgb(45, 68, 135); border-style: solid; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; border-width: 1px; box-sizing: content-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 18px !important; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"><span class="pw-icon ra1-pw-icon ra1-pw-icon-facebook" style="background: url(http://i.po.st/static/v3/img/post-native.png) 0px 0px; box-sizing: content-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block !important; height: 12px; left: 3px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; position: absolute; top: 3px; vertical-align: top; width: 12px;">FB</span></span></a></div> <div class="feelgood" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; overflow: hidden; position: relative;"> <div style="color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> <a class="group1" href="http://www.sunnyskyz.com/uploads/2014/09/043c0-games.jpg" style="color: #0099ff; outline: none; text-decoration: none;"><img class="largeimg" src="http://www.sunnyskyz.com/uploads/2014/09/043c0-games.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; max-width: 350px;" /></a>When there is a will, there is a way. Caleb's buddy, Ike, missed him very much. I went to the kids room earlier today and played with Ike for a bit, and he asked how Caleb was doing, and so did Caleb's other friend Casey. We said our goodbyes and I headed back to Caleb's room.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> Ike rolled over in his wheelchair and knocked on the door because he wanted to say hello. But Caleb is unable to leave his room, so I grabbed some rubber gloves and a controller and gave it to Ike outside the glass doors.</div> <div style="color: #222222; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"> Now they are having a blast playing Call of Duty. Love seeing these guys smiling and just being kids.</div> </div> </div>

Friendship Finds A Way

FB When there is a will, there is a way. Caleb's buddy, Ike, missed him very much. I went to the kids room earlier today and played...

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Iran says it rebuffed US invitation to join anti-Islamic State coalition

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1623" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> By Mehrdad Balali</div> <div class="body-slot-mod" style="background-color: white; clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17.3076953887939px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-width: 300px;"> <div class="yom-remote"> <div class="" id="mediacontentrelatedstory_container"> </div> </div> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1621" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> DUBAI (Reuters) - <span capspos="51" class="cap-annotation cap-annotation_s2s" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(50, 79, 225); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px;">Iran</span>’s supreme leader<span capspos="73" class="cap-annotation cap-annotation_s2s" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1626" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(50, 79, 225); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px;">Ayatollah Ali Khamenei</span> said on Monday he had vetoed a U.S. invitation to cooperate in fighting<span capspos="168" class="cap-annotation cap-annotation_s2s" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1719" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(50, 79, 225); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px;">Islamic State</span>, but Washington insisted it would not coordinate militarily with Iran against the militants.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1627" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> “The American ambassador in <span capspos="318" class="cap-annotation cap-annotation_s2s" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(50, 79, 225); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px;">Iraq</span> asked our ambassador (in Iraq) for a session to discuss coordinating a fight against Daesh (Islamic State),” said Khamenei, in quotes carried on state news agency IRNA.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1629" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> “Our ambassador in Iraq reflected this to us, which was welcomed by some (Iranian) officials, but I was opposed. I saw no point in cooperating with a country whose hands are dirty and intentions murky."</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1631" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> He said it was Iran’s choice not to work with the country the <span capspos="791" class="cap-annotation cap-annotation_s2s" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(50, 79, 225); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px;">Islamic Republic</span> has traditionally called the Great Satan, having also refused similar overtures to Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his deputy Abbas Araqchi.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1660" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Khamenei rejected recent comments by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that Washington was opposed to any Iranian role in a international coalition against Islamic State.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1991" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> “Now they (the U.S) are lying, in saying that it is them who excluded us from their coalition, while it was Iran that refused to participate in this collation to begin with,” said Khamenei, 75, who left hospital on Monday following prostate surgery.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1995" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> In Paris, a conference opened on Monday to discuss how to curb the jihadist movement that has seized a third of Iraq and Syria. Iran was not represented.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1993" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Khamenei questioned U.S. resolve in fighting Islamic State, which has captured tracts of land in Syria and Iraq and has become the most potent opposition to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, an ally of Iran's.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1617" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "American officials' comments on forming an anti-Islamic State (alliance) are blank, hollow and self-serving, and contradictions in their behaviors and statements attest to this fact," said Khamenei.</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1615" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> Khamenei said Washington wanted in Iraq what it had in Pakistan -- "a playground where they can enter freely and bomb at will".</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410798330903_1613" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 24.0000019073486px; margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> "The Americans should keep in mind that if they go ahead with such a thing, then the same problems that they faced in Iraq in the past 10 years will come back," he said, referring to years of conflict between U.S. forces and an array of armed Iraqi groups.</div> </div>

Iran says it rebuffed US invitation to join anti-Islamic State coalition

By Mehrdad Balali DUBAI (Reuters) -  Iran ’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei  said on Monday he had vetoed a U.S. invitation...

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What we know (and don't know) about a rare virus infecting kids across the US

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="m-entry__top-hero m-entry__top-hero__default" style="box-sizing: border-box; image-rendering: optimizequality; position: relative;"> <div class="m-entry__photo" style="box-sizing: border-box; image-rendering: optimizequality; margin: 0px 0px 15px; position: relative;"> <figure style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><img alt="" class="vox-lazy-load lazy-loaded" data-dim="1278x1278" data-imgkey="38216984:standard:17" data-original="http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/38333320/2806690.0.0_standard_1280.0.jpg" data-overlay="c-black" src="http://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/38333320/2806690.0.0_standard_1280.0.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; image-rendering: optimizequality; width: 639px;" /><figcaption class="p-caption" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 214, 215); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: table; padding: 1em 5px 0.75em; width: 639px;"><span class="p-caption__credit" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; padding: 0px 2em; text-align: right; width: 629px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mario Villafuerte/Getty Images News</span></span></figcaption></figure><div class="m-entry-admin-pane" data-remote-admin-entry-id="5886512" data-remote-admin-entry-type="pane" style="box-sizing: border-box; image-rendering: optimizequality;"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="m-follow-bar" id="follow-bar" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; image-rendering: optimizequality; margin: 1em 0px 2em; padding: 5px 5px 0px; position: relative;"> <span class="m-follow-bar__highlighted" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box;">FOLLOW VOX!</span><div class="m-follow-bar__buttons" id="follow-bar-buttons" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; image-rendering: optimizequality; margin: 2px 2em -2px 10px; vertical-align: top;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe allowtransparency="true" class="facebook" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FVox&send=false&layout=button_count&width=200&show_faces=false&action=like&colorscheme=light&font&height=21" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 49px;"></iframe> <iframe allowtransparency="true" class="twitter-follow-button twitter-follow-button" data-twttr-rendered="true" frameborder="0" id="twitter-widget-0" scrolling="no" src="http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.1410542722.html#_=1410793639734&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&screen_name=voxdotcom&show_count=true&show_screen_name=false&size=m" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 20px; width: 160px;" title="Twitter Follow Button"></iframe></span></div> </div> <div class="m-entry__body" id="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; image-rendering: optimizequality; margin: 25px 0px; position: relative;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A rare virus — enterovirus D68, also known as EV-D68 — is infecting children across the country and sending them to hospitals with severe respiratory infections and breathing problems. Though the virus doesn't appear to be deadly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are warning doctors and parents to be on the lookout. <b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b>"This is a very unusual situation," said Dr. Greg Storch, director of infectious diseases at St. Louis Children's Hospital in Missouri. "We don't fully know what to expect."</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here's what we know and what we don't know<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>so far.<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></b></span></div> <div class="m-ad m-ad__article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; image-rendering: optimizequality; margin: 1.5em -2em; text-align: center;"> <div class="open_x_ad" data-cb-ad-id="Mobile article body" data-cb-dfp-id="unit=563448" id="open_x_ad_unit_563448" style="box-sizing: border-box; image-rendering: optimizequality; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1080px;"> </div> </div> <h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; margin: 1.5em 0px 0.5em;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What we know</span></span></h3> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— Missouri and Illinois appear to be the first states affected</b> by </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">enterovirus D68<span class="superscript" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></b>.</b>According to the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm63e0908a1.htm?s_cid=mm63e0908a1_e" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transition: all 100ms ease; background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; image-rendering: optimizequality; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;">CDC</a>, hospital officials at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri and University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital in Illinois notified the CDC in August about an increase in enterovirus cases that they were seeing. The CDC did further testing of specimens that were sent their way from the two hospitals and found that 19 of 22 from Kansas City and 11 of 14 from Chicago tested positive for EV-D68<span class="superscript" style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— In total, more than 100 children in seven states have</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> tested positive for EV-D68</b> <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">as of September 12, 2014.</b> These include New York, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky and Missouri.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— This infection shows no sign of slowing down. </b>According to CDC, up to a dozen states may have potential cases and investigations are underway.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— All the cases involve young kids of both sexes, many of whom had a history of asthma or wheezing.</b> Of the 19 confirmed cases from Kansas City, 10 were male, and their ages ranged from 6 weeks to 16 years, with a median of 4 years. Nearly 70 percent of patients had a previous history of asthma or wheezing. Of the Chicago group, nine of the 11 patients were female, and ages ranged from 20 months to 15 years with a median of 5 years. Nearly three-quarters had a history of asthma or wheezing.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— The</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> kids stricken with </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">EV-D68</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> had difficulty breathing and a good number of them experienced wheezing. They also had low blood-oxygen levels. Fevers were less common.</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Kansas City, about five children (or a quarter) had fevers, while in Chicago, only two (or 18 percent) had fevers.</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— According to the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/non-polio-enterovirus/about/EV-D68.html" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transition: all 100ms ease; background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; image-rendering: optimizequality; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;">CDC</a>, mild symptoms of EV-D68 can include fever, runny nose, sneezing, cough, and muscle aches.</b> But again, the kids who got sick in Missouri and Illinois had symptoms that included difficulty breathing and wheezing.<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </b>These patients were treated in pediatric intensive care units at the hospitals. Some needed help breathing with ventilation machines.<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"></b></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— No one has died from the virus this year</b>, though the CDC says they can't be sure if the virus has ever been deadly since it's not a disease they usually track.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— There's not much you can do to treat it. </b>There are no vaccines or antiviral treatments for EV-D68. The main kind of care is just supportive, so paying attention to symptoms and making sure people get proper fluids and help breathing, if necessary. Again, it doesn't appear to be deadly and the CDC's <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/about/leadership/leaders/schuchat.htm" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transition: all 100ms ease; background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; image-rendering: optimizequality; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;">Dr. Anne Schuchat</a> said she believes it typically runs its course in a week.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dr. Pritish Tosh, an infectious diseases physician-researcher at the Mayo Clinic, added: "When dealing with respiratory illnesses in young people, they can be severe and result in hospitalizations and the requirement of intensive care. And it looks as through this strain of the virus is causing infections in children severe enough to get them admitted to the hospital."</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Enteroviruses generally are very common. They usually turn up as "summer colds."</b>There are more than 100 different strains, and they affect between 10 and 15 million people in the US per year. They can cause everything from encephalitis to viral meningitis.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">— <b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Enteroviruses are typically spread through the fecal-oral pathway. </b>That means pathogens in one person's feces infect another person by getting into their mouth, usually by touching the face and mouth with dirty hands.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">This particular strain (EV-D68) spreads like the common cold </b>through respiratory secretions, such as coughing, sneezing, or touching an infected surface. It was first identified in California in 1962. Compared to other strains of the enterovirus, it has been rare in the US. The CDC said that during 2009-2013, they got 79 reports of EV-D68 and it has been the cause of small clusters of sickness but never a widespread outbreak like the one that seems to have taken hold in the Midwest.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's usually associated with respiratory illness — like a really intense cold — though the full spectrum of sickness that this strain can bring on is unclear. "We don't know as much about it as we do about some of the common respiratory viruses," said the CDC's  <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/about/leadership/leaders/schuchat.htm" sl-processed="1" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-transition: all 100ms ease; background-image: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; image-rendering: optimizequality; text-decoration: none; transition: all 100ms ease;">Dr. Schuchat</a>.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">EV-D68 is detected using molecular techniques at several labs across the US and it's not monitored nationally.</b> According to the CDC, enterovirus infections including EV-D68, are not required to be reported. "But laboratory detections of enterovirus and parechovirus types are reported voluntarily to the National Enterovirus Surveillance System, which is managed by CDC. Participating laboratories are encouraged to report monthly summaries of virus type, specimen type, and collection date."</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— The CDC says health care providers should be on the lookout for </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">EV-D68 </b>as a possible cause of serious and unexplained severe respiratory illness.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— Parents should only worry if their kids are having difficulty breathing. </b><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">If your child is having trouble breathing, see a doctor.</span></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— You can prevent spread through good hygiene. </b>Wash your hands and make sure you have good cough etiquette.</span></div> <h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 400; margin: 1.5em 0px 0.5em;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What we don't know.</span></span></h3> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— We don't know why this strain has turned up in these geographic locations. </b>Again, EV-D68 is thought to be rare so why it's turning up now in clusters across the Midwest, West, and South, and landing kids in hospitals, is unclear.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— Whether it has ever killed people. </b>Since it's not a reportable disease, the CDC said it "does not know how many infections and deaths from EV-D68 occur each year in the United States."</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— Public health officials are not sure about all the symptoms this strain of the virus can cause</b>, since it's uncommon. That means EV-D68 may cause other types of illness beyond just respiratory complications, but we just don't know yet.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— Exactly who is most at risk. </b>The CDC said, "In general, infants, children, and teenagers are most likely to get infected with enteroviruses and become ill. That's because they do not yet have immunity (protection) from previous exposures to these viruses. We believe this is also true for EV-D68." Kids with asthma seem to be more affected.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">— The total case count. </b>The CDC says it's investigating potential cases but could not confirm that total number affected.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div>

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background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 7px; border-bottom-right-radius: 7px; border-top-left-radius: 7px; border-top-right-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 54px; left: 50%; margin-left: -38px; margin-top: -27px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: 0px; top: 50%; width: 76px; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="obama" border="0" class="editorial inview" data-preembed="image" height="1122" src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/HdqCuaLx7tMl.JJ4EhNGqA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTEyMDA-/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/Obama_Assad_Shooting_At_American-d426b9d16cd99a78fb7cdba7ea13e8cd" style="-webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important; width: 698px;" width="1200" /></span></figure></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div class="source" style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">REUTERS/Saul Loeb/Pool</span></div> <div class="caption" style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">US President Barack Obama delivers a live televised address to the nation on his plans for military action against the Islamic State, from the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington September 10, 2014.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President Barack Obama would seek to overthrow the regime of Bashar al-Assad if American planes were attacked upon entering Syrian air space, Peter Baker of <a data-rapid_p="29" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/world/middleeast/paths-to-war-then-and-now-haunt-obama.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The New York Times reports</a> .</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If Assad's troops f ired at American planes entering Syrian airspace,  "Obama said he would order American forces to wipe out Syria’s air defense system," Baker reports. "He went on to say that such an action by Mr. Assad would lead to his overthrow, according to one account."</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Wednesday, Obama announced that he had authorized US airstrikes in Syria while laying out <a data-rapid_p="30" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-strategy-defeat-isis-2014-9" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a four-part strategy</a> to "destroy" and "eradicate" radical ISIS militants who have captured roughly a third of Syria and a third of Iraq.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Since August, US warplanes have backed Iraqi soldiers, Kurdish peshmerga fighters, and Iranian-backed Shia militiamen as they attempt to roll back ISIS gains in Iraq.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Baker, who spoke with 10 people who spoke to the president leading up to his speech on Wednesday, writes that Obama " struck his guests as less certain about the endgame on the Syrian side, where he has called for Mr. Assad to step down and must now rely on the same moderate Syrian rebels he refused to arm in the past."</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Syrian rebels associated with the Western-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) have scoffed at Obama's plan, saying that it rushes to target ISIS while ignoring Assad.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I don't really understand this sudden fuss about ISIS," one FSA fighter<a data-rapid_p="31" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/%20told%20The%20Guardian" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> told The Guardian</a>. "They killed people, but Bashar has been killing for the last three years. But nobody seems to be interested in that anymore."</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Opposition fighters note that simply bombing ISIS <a data-rapid_p="32" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/25/syrian-rebels-to-obama-airstrikes-in-syria-will-never-stop-isis.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">will not stop</a> the criminal army and that a comprehensive plan is needed to deal with both ISIS and Assad.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Instead of bombing ISIS from the air, we need support inside Syria to fight. It's the only way," Mohammed Al Bakhour, 31, a senior commander of an Aleppo-based FSA battalion, told the Guardian . "Once Assad is gone, we'll deal with ISIS ourselves."</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div class="yom-figure " style="float: none; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; width: 1200px;"> <figure class="cover get-lbdata-from-dom go-to-slideshow-lightbox" data-orig-index="2" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1410792581569_241" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><a class="cover-anchor" data-rapid_p="33" href="" id="cover-88fbe76500c9775d52fd9b7d4969e62d" name="cover-88fbe76500c9775d52fd9b7d4969e62d" style="position: absolute; top: -60px;"></a><span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow" style="background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 7px; border-bottom-right-radius: 7px; border-top-left-radius: 7px; border-top-right-radius: 7px; cursor: pointer; height: 54px; left: 50%; margin-left: -38px; margin-top: -27px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: 0px; top: 50%; width: 76px; z-index: 1;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Syria Iraq Map_updated_05" border="0" class="editorial inview" data-preembed="image" height="1200" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XoYJkNndxAWmkbgYoeDRtg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTEyMDA-/http://globalfinance.zenfs.com/en_us/Finance/US_AFTP_SILICONALLEY_H_LIVE/Obama_Assad_Shooting_At_American-8a336568ff2bd75223682a323695e2cb" style="-webkit-transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: bottom; visibility: visible !important; width: 698px;" width="1200" /></span></figure></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> </div> <div class="source" style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mike Nudelman/Business Insider</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's unclear if the US would protect what it calls "the legitimate opposition" near Aleppo,  Syria's largest city and the last place that the FSA has a significant foothold. FSA-aligned revolutionaries are currently  <a data-rapid_p="34" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-syrian-civil-war-is-on-the-verge-of-getting-even-worse-2014-9" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">fighting for their survival</a>  as ISIS and Assad attack them from all sides.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Helping FSA rebels against Assad's warplanes would force Obama to get involved in  " <a data-rapid_p="35" href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/09/full-transcript-president-obamas-exclusive-interview-with-george-stephanopoulos/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">somebody else's civil war</a> " while  putting American planes in the sights of Syrian planes and air defense systems.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"From everything the administration has said and leaked to the press, we know that it will not offer the FSA any meaningful protection from the Syrian Air Force’s punishing aerial assaults, either in the form of a no-fly zone or shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles," journalist  <a data-rapid_p="36" href="https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/commentaryanalysis/563316-some-terrorists-are-better-than-others" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Michael Weiss writes in Now</a> . " This means that the same rebels who ... were already fighting six different enemies in Syria will only be equipped to carry on fighting one. So what happens if Assad continues to bomb America’s half-a-billion-dollar counterterrorism proxy force?"</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The New York Times editorial board <a data-rapid_p="37" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/opinion/sunday/a-risky-bet-on-syrian-rebels.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">argues</a> that without significant strengthening of Syrian rebels, " there is no chance the fight against ISIS can be successful."</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And then there is the hovering question of Assad.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Obama administration has argued that US airstrikes on ISIS positions wouldn't help Assad because he has lost legitimacy in the areas currently under ISIS control. But without a strong nationalist opposition — which both Assad and ISIS are <a data-rapid_p="38" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/assads-plan-to-work-with-the-west-2014-8" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">trying to destroy</a> — the Syrian regime stands to gain from airstrikes on ISIS.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Assad is the far stronger player in Syria; hitting ISIS necessarily helps him consolidate power," geopolitical expert Ian Bremmer told Business Insider in an email. "That’s a cause and effect that the US is trying to avoid, but it’s the reality."</span></div> </div> </div> </section></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

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