The five children experienced paralysis of one or more arms or legs that came on suddenly and reached the height of its severity within two days of onset.
EV-68D background: USA Today - 1 views
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"Doctors in Colorado spotted it first -- a group of 10 children hospitalized with signs of a neurologic illness: limb weakness, cranial nerve dysfunction and abnormalities in their spinal gray matter..... Tests of the Colorado children's cerebrospinal fluid came back negative for enteroviruses and West Nile virus. But a test of their nasal passages found enterovirus in six out of eight patients who were tested."
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Dr. Finnerty asked if I could link this here on Diigo.
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Thanks Alex.
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Mysterious polio-like illness found in 5 California children - 0 views
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The children were treated but their symptoms did not improve and they still had poor limb function after six months. Two children tested positive for enterovirus-68, a rare virus previously associated with polio-like symptoms. No cause was identified in the remaining three children.
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2approved by theFood and Drug Administration for use in clinical settings ( LuminexxTAGRVP, Idaho Technologies FilmArray Respiratory Panel). But, these systems use broadly reactive primers that amplify RNA from either human rhinoviruses (HRVs) or enteroviruses, and results are reported as "entero-rhinovirus" or "human rhinovirus/
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Recently, a pediatric hospital in Kansas City,Missouri has experienced over 300 cases of respiratory illnesses in their facility. Approximately 15% of those illnesses have resulted in children being placed in an intensive care unit.
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