Researchers have pinpointed enterovirus as the likely cause of acute flaccid myelitis, the polio-like condition affecting young children across the country, according to a study published in Nature ...

That said, polio boosters do exist. The CDC says that adults who are “at increased risk of exposure to poliovirus” and ...

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This year, there are 11 confirmed cases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis, with one in Maryland. Doctor Cristina Sadowsky, director of Kennedy Krieger Institute's International Center for Spinal Cord Injury, ...

The CDC is investigating about 160 additional reports of children with possible acute flaccid myelitis, but are still puzzled by the sudden spike in cases, according to STAT. Health officials have ...

Scientists are sure that infantile paralysis is caused by a virus. They have long known where to look for it—in the brain and spinal cord. But isolation of the elusive virus itself has led researchers ...

Collierville Rotary Club recently participated in the Purple Pinkie Donuts fundraiser to help fight polio and get more ...