Last year there were 228 confirmed US cases of acute flaccid myelitis, a rare, mysterious and sometimes deadly paralyzing illness that is beginning to alarm public health officials because it's striking more and more children.
Braden Scott gives a thumbs up while practicing on the piano in Tomball, Texas, on March 29, 2019. Braden was diagnosed with acute flaccid myelitis in 2016.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.One morning last fall, 4-year-old Joey Wilcox woke up with the left side of his face drooping.Three days later, Joey was in a hospital intensive care unit, unable to move his arms or legs or sit up.
Most had a cold-like illness and fever, seemed to get over it, then descended into paralysis. In some cases it started in small ways — for example, a thumb that suddenly wouldn’t move. Some went on to lose the ability to eat or draw breath. Many parents say that when they first brought their child to the emergency room, they quickly realized to their horror that the doctors were at sea, too.“Everyone is desperate for some magical thing,” said Rachel Scott, a Tomball, Texas, woman whose son Braden developed AFM in 2016 and has recovered somewhat after intensive physical therapy but still cannot move his right arm and has trouble swallowing and moving his neck.“These kids can continue to recover very slowly, year over year. ...
In the U.S., doctors began reporting respiratory illnesses tied to EV-D68 in 1987, though usually no more than a dozen in any given year.
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