2 Oregon girls dealing with mysterious paralysis

[Shiloh]

Source: http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/ar...is-6035937.php

2 Oregon girls dealing with mysterious paralysis
By LYNNE TERRY, The Oregonian
Published
4:22 pm, Friday, January 23, 2015
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? One girl is in a Portland hospital paralyzed from the neck down and another, who's been discharged, is hobbling around with a brace. They don't have polio, which would cause similar symptoms. But doctors have no idea what's wrong.
There is no cure, at least not yet, but their syndrome has a name: Acute Flaccid Myelitis...

[Tonka]

Caringbridge page for one of the Oregon cases. Parents are trying very hard to raise awareness.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/baileysheehan/journal/view/id/546250b8ca16b4ac3808b158

[Emily]

By Lynne Terry
The Oregonian
Jan. 25, 2015
...

It started in the ?Sheehan household in Welches with flulike symptoms at the end of October. Everyone was sick, including Sheehan?s 4-month-old baby and her son, who?s 5 years old.
But Bailey was hit the worst.

http://registerguard.com/rg/news/loc...-kids.html.csp

See research proposed to explain why the paralysis is so rare and can affect only one of many in a household exposed to a potential triggering virus:

https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/united-states/united-states-ev-d68-ev68-outbreak-2014/722549-researchers-explore-possibility-that-genetic-derangement-of-immune-response-is-responsible-for-rare-acute-flaccid-myelitis-cases