ASSOCIATED PRESS Braden was paralyzed almost completely by the mysterious illness that seems to ebb and flow every other year and is beginning to alarm public health officials. ASSOCIATED PRESS Rachel Scott, left, talks with her son, Braden, in Tomball, Texas on Friday, March 29. The first real burst of AFM cases hit in 2014, when 120 were confirmed, with the largest concentrations in California and Colorado. CDC officials consider an illness AFM based on scans and other evidence showing a certain kind of damage to the spinal cord. Scientists are using more sensitive spinal-fluid tests in hopes of establishing the connection between AFM and EV-D68 more firmly.

Source: Huffington Post April 02, 2019 17:15 UTC