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The Mysterious Polio-Like Disease Affecting American Kids
The AtlanticBy Dan Hurley | The Atlantic ? 2 hours 34 minutes ago
COLUMBUS, Ohio?More than 100 cases of a polio-like syndrome causing full or partial paralysis of the arms or legs have been seen in children across the United States in recent months, according to doctors attending the annual meeting of the Child Neurology Society.
Symptoms have ranged from mild weakness in a single arm to complete paralysis of arms, legs, and even the muscles controlling the lungs, leading in some cases to a need for surgery to insert a breathing tube, doctors said.
The outbreak, which appears to be larger and more widespread than what has largely been previously reported by medical and news organizations, has neurologists and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scrambling to find out what is causing these cases and how best to treat it.
?We don?t know how to treat it, and we don?t know how to prevent it,? said Keith Van Haren, a child neurologist at Stanford University School of Medicine. ?It actually looks just like polio, but that term really freaks out the public-health people.?
When asked whether they had seen a complete recovery in any of their patients, only two of the doctors raised their hands...
The Mysterious Polio-Like Disease Affecting American Kids
The AtlanticBy Dan Hurley | The Atlantic ? 2 hours 34 minutes ago
COLUMBUS, Ohio?More than 100 cases of a polio-like syndrome causing full or partial paralysis of the arms or legs have been seen in children across the United States in recent months, according to doctors attending the annual meeting of the Child Neurology Society.
Symptoms have ranged from mild weakness in a single arm to complete paralysis of arms, legs, and even the muscles controlling the lungs, leading in some cases to a need for surgery to insert a breathing tube, doctors said.
The outbreak, which appears to be larger and more widespread than what has largely been previously reported by medical and news organizations, has neurologists and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scrambling to find out what is causing these cases and how best to treat it.
?We don?t know how to treat it, and we don?t know how to prevent it,? said Keith Van Haren, a child neurologist at Stanford University School of Medicine. ?It actually looks just like polio, but that term really freaks out the public-health people.?
When asked whether they had seen a complete recovery in any of their patients, only two of the doctors raised their hands...
