Unexplained, Polio-Like Illness Has Paralyzed 75 Kids

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Unexplained, Polio-Like Illness Has Paralyzed 75 Kids

The first cases were reported in August in Colorado, around the same time that children began going to the emergency room with breathing problems related to enterovirus D68, according to the CDC. The CDC reports 1,116 cases of the enterovirus in 47 states and Washington, D.C. recent months, almost all in children. Twelve children with the virus have died.

The paralysis resembles polio in that the children have severe muscle weakness. All had a fever and respiratory symptoms about a week before developing the paralysis. Most of the children had problems with the spinal cord that could be seen on a magnetic resonance image, or MRI, according to the CDC.

Some of the children also had enterovirus D68 in their nasal mucus. That virus typically causes respiratory problems, so doctors don't know if it's to blame for the paralysis, according to the CDC.

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Convince me this isn't related to Obama shopping around places to settle illegal aliens carrying diseases this country eradicated 50 years ago.

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Convince me this isn't related to Obama shopping around places to settle illegal aliens carrying diseases this country eradicated 50 years ago.

Not to mention the late 50'ies when the first Polio vaccines to come out that were not checked out and thousands of perfectely healthy kids who recieved the vaccine not by shot by the drink method --[ as I did ]   developed a strain of polio, mild compared to the iron lung type.

Today these adults still wear braces on their legs,    they work and go on with their lives, as they have never known any other kind of this life, this is normal for them.     

It makes me wonder about the years I had as a kid ,bad pains in my legs, family put it down to Growing Pains, except the pains have come and gone for 60 years, just off and on.