Polio-like symptoms found in three Kansas City children
Shannon Halligan
6:45 PM, Sep 29, 2014
6:51 PM, Sep 29, 2014
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Doctors are on alert after children started having polio-like symptoms in Colorado. Now, there are three similar cases at Children?s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City...
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Dr. Mary Anne Jackson, the Division Director of Infectious Diseases at Children's Mercy Hospital, said children in Kansas City are experiencing similar symptoms.
?These are indeed cases though where the limbs are weak or the limbs have simply stopped functioning because of paralysis so we are calling them polio-like at this point,? Dr. Jackson said.
In Denver, four of the children tested positive for Enterovirus D-68.
However, the Kansas City kids tested negative.
?The types that the Denver folks have identified, ours are a little different from theirs, but they do meet the case definition and we're looking at three different cases right now,? Dr. Jackson said...
