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   (Reuters) - A hospital in Illinois has barred children under 12   
   from visiting the facility until further notice due to an   
   outbreak of an unknown respiratory virus that has affected more   
   than 70 young children in the area, hospital officials said on   
   Friday.   
      
   More than 70 children complaining of respiratory virus symptoms   
   visited the Blessing Hospital in Quincy, southwest Illinois,   
   during the Labor Day weekend, they said.   
      
   Hospital spokeswoman Lisa Neisen said the hospital will not   
   release the status of the children.   
      
   The virus, has yet to be identified, but resembles HEV68, a   
   respiratory infection that broke out in nearby St. Louis and   
   Kansas City a week earlier, Dr. Robert Merrick, an   
   epidemiologist at the hospital, said in a statement.   
      
   Hannibal Regional Healthcare System in nearby Hannibal,   
   Missouri, which issued a similar warning to children, lists the   
   symptoms on its Facebook page as fever, runny nose, sneezing,   
   cough, mouth blisters, body and muscle aches and rash.   
      
   Last week, St. Louis Children's Hospital reported that intakes   
   related to the virus increased 50 percent and Children's Mercy   
   Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, had 300 cases of children   
   with the virus.   
      
   (Reporting by Mark Guarino in Chicago; Editing by Brendan   
   O'Brien and Sandra Maler)   
      
   http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/05/us-usa-virus-illinois-   
   idUSKBN0H02BA20140905   
      
        
      
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