Yakima Health Officials Watching For Illness

The Yakima County Health District is working with local doctors and health care providers after hundreds of children across the Midwest have been hospitalized with a severe respiratory illness in recent weeks. Diane Bock the Community Health Supervisor with the Yakima County Health District says there have been no reports of an outbreak in Yakima. But that doesn't mean it won't happen. "We want to be proactive. We don't to wait until we get cases and then talk to doctors about it. In case we do see it here we want to be prepared and that the doctors are alerted to it." Bock is asking doctors to watch for signs of a large outbreak of the respiratory virus that's made hundreds of kids sick in the Midwest. officials in 10 states are now reporting cases some severe enough to send children to hospitals.