DETROIT (AP) — Michigan has its second confirmed case this year of a mysterious paralyzing illness called acute flaccid myelitis.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday it was notified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that the state has a confirmed case in a child in Oakland County. An earlier case was included in adjacent Wayne County, which includes Detroit.
The state says nine suspected cases in Michigan are under investigation.
Officials have said this year’s count nationally could surpass the tallies seen in similar outbreaks in 2014 and 2016 .
It’s not clear what’s causing some children to lose the ability to move their face, neck, back, arms or legs. Symptoms tend to occur about a week after the children had a fever and respiratory illness.
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This dangerous virus or disease might be spread with an entereovirus, but cdc can’t tell for sure? Is it possible it’s parasitic in nature? Impossible to stop if they don’t know how it gets transmitted; or, if the CDC doesn’t know what it is. The genesis of this seems to be a certain area, age groups, but nothing about the individuals who contract it. I’m sure that our bureaucracy within the CDC are working hard to figure out what, when, where, how, and why about this, or I truly hope they are!
Perhaps a little bit deeper journalism efforts will help push for this THING to get fast tracked down and stopped by CDC, or physicians involved with the patients that contracts whatever the heck it is?