ACUTE FLACCID MYELITIS: WHAT IS BEHIND THE MYSTERY PARALYSIS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN?.
ACUTE FLACCID MYELITIS: WHAT IS BEHIND THE MYSTERY PARALYSIS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN? THE DANGEROUS VIRUS OR THE GENETIC DISORDER? At the moment when little Carter Roberts was hit by sudden Polio-like illness, the US doctors had no clue what is happening with the body of this 3-year-old boy. He was hospitalized for months at Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland while they were trying to catch up what is going on with him. That was just the beginning of the worst health nightmare recently that has targeted American children and their parents. The CDC defined the disease with the odd name: acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). According to their study, myelitis is inflammation of the spinal cord, caused by different indicators that could vary from dangerous germs via biological toxins to the genetic disorders :” Most patients will have sudden onset of limb weakness and loss of muscle tone and reflexes. Some patients, in addition t...