Study finds more evidence linking enterovirus D68 to mysterious paralysis in kids Parents Hunt for Answers on Kids’ Mysterious Paralysis The CDC’s New Tests Can More Quickly Check for Enterovirus What You Need to Know About the Respiratory Illness Enterovirus D68 From last summer to this March, 115 children in 34 states suddenly developed sudden unexplained paralysis—called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM)—that has kept medical experts scratching their heads about what could be causing it. But innew research published on Monday from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), researchers suggest a specific strain of a common virus could be contributing.
Scientists and doctors have long thought that an enterovirus called EV-D68 somehow played a role in the clusters of kids who became partially paralyzed, since the emergence of their symptoms happened at the same time U.S. emergency…
