The CDC is warning about the spread of a common childhood virus that can cause muscle weakness or paralysis in rare cases.
Dr. Charles Chiu reviews microscopic imagery in his lab at the University of California San Francisco in February 2017. Chiu has published findings about the effects of paralysis in children with enterovirus D68.Sept. 13, 2022, 12:22 AM UTCThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning about the spread of a common childhood virus that can cause muscle weakness or paralysis in rare cases.
As of Sept. 2, 13 cases of AFM have been confirmed this year in the U.S. The CDC said it is investigating 20 additional cases. "We have a group of kids now who’ve never seen the virus, because they weren’t having school exposures. So we think the at-risk population is bigger than in 2020," he said. AFM could also be confused with a severe case of polio, which results in a similar condition called acute flaccid paralysis. The U.S. recorded one polio case in July, and it hasGreenberg said the polio detection calls for"raised awareness among health care providers so that they can send appropriate testing."What is enterovirus D68?
"It doesn’t look like things have suddenly taken a terrible turn for the worse," said Dr. Keith Van Haren, an assistant neurology professor at Stanford University, adding,"I’m hopeful that at least there’s not a tidal wave of new neurologic cases as of yet."If past years are any indication, Greenberg said,"in the next few weeks we will see an obvious uptick in the number of AFM cases unless the virus has changed for the better.
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