This is Part I in a series on the enteroviruses that appear to cause a polio-like neurological disease, Acute Flaccid Myelitis. Reports of this life-threatening condition have increased within the US ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently asked health departments and clinicians to watch for symptoms of acute flaccid myelitis in kids, especially through November. That's when ...
Within days, the boy went from having cold symptoms to being unable to walk. To Peter Wright, a pediatric infectious diseases physician at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, it looked similar to ...
A case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine provides evidence that enterovirus D68 directly infects spinal cord neurons and that a corresponding robust immune response is present—a ...
Researchers found evidence of what might cause acute flaccid myelitis, known as AFM, a rare polio-like illness that affects children. According to a study published Monday in the journal Nature ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 20-year-old Rockland County man who tested positive for polio had recently traveled to Poland and Hungary, a health official told the Washington Post. Doctors initially ...
Children line up for polio vaccine drops given by health workers in Kandahar on Monday. (Sanaullah Seiam/AFP/Getty Images) A variety of new hurdles has emerged in the long, difficult struggle to ...
Evidence that the virus is likely circulating in New York has reignited concerns over the disease. By Dani Blum During the slog of yet another Covid wave, and mounting monkeypox anxieties, health ...
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