Acute flaccid myelitis: What is the polio-like illness paralyzing US children?
- Written by Jay Desai, Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Southern California
Illustrative image of virus associated with acute flaccid myelitis.Lightspring/Shutterstock.comI experienced déjà vu when I took care of a child with acute flaccid myelitis in 2014, one of the first cases of its kind at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in many years.
I had taken care of polio patients in India in 1990s and...
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