A mysterious paralyzing disease is on the rise in kids, and the CDC is scrambling to find a cause (via axios)
Doctors continue to seek the cause of the serious neurologic syndrome after the largest recorded outbreak in 2018 — 233 patients in 41 states reported symptoms that often included limb weakness or paralysis. The
in determining the source of the illness, as some but not all patients show evidence of enteroviruses, which are spread through the nervous system, in their bodies.in the journal Biorxiv tested 100 children, 42 with AFM and 58 with other neurological conditions, using an experimental CRIPSR-Cas9-enhanced genomic test of cerebro-spinal fluid to look for viral evidence of infection by enteroviruses. Biorxiv is not peer-reviewed.
While still not definitive, the study found higher levels of antibodies from EV-A71 and EV-D68 in children with AFM than those with other neurological disorders.The CDC estimates that fewer than 1 to 2 per million children in the U.S. will get AFM every year. Based on the 2018 study:27% required machines to help them breath.The illness tends to spike in late summer through fall. If it follows its past history of spiking every other year, this year should show a smaller number of cases.
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