Pinkeye Was Only Symptom in Child Killed by Enterovirus
By Michelle Fay Cortez Oct 6, 2014 12:01 AM ET

A New Jersey preschooler killed last month by a respiratory virus that is spreading across the U.S. showed symptoms only of pinkeye before he died in his sleep, health officials said.

Four-year-old Eli Waller, of Hamilton Township, was kept home from school by his mother on Wednesday, Sept. 23, because he was developing a little bit of pinkeye, said Jeff Plunkett, the health officer for the township. He was otherwise fine and had been in school on Sept. 21 and 22.

Waller, a triplet with two sisters, never woke up.

“Between the time his mom put him to bed Wednesday night and when she went to wake him up on Thursday morning, he passed,” Plunkett said in a telephone interview yesterday. “He had no other symptoms whatsoever.”

The Mercer County medical examiner’s office on Oct. 4 listed Waller’s cause of death as Enterovirus D68, or EV-D68, a virus that reemerged in the U.S. in August and has spread to at least 43 states. It can be particularly hard-hitting, and has put hundreds of children in the hospital with breathing difficulties and caused paralysis in dozens more.

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