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 ...

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 ...

Before polio vaccines became available in the 1950s, people wary of the disabling disease were afraid to allow their children outside, let alone go to school. As polio appears again decades after it ...

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 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed acute flaccid myelitis in eight of the nine kids admitted to Seattle Children’s hospital with polio-like symptoms. AFM is a rare condition ...

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 ...

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 ...

People were shocked late last week when news broke that polio, the potentially disabling and life-threatening disease, was detected in New York. According to a joint press release from the New York ...

Polio is a disabling and highly-infectious disease caused by the poliovirus This virus spreads from person to person mainly through the oral-fecal route About one in four people infected with the ...

Back in 2022, everyone was surprised (and a little uneasy) when the news was announced that a man in New York had contracted poliovirus (polio, for short). After all, don't all children receive the ...