Rare illness mostly afflicts kids

Name: Rare illness mostly afflicts kids
Uploaded: 2018-10-10T02:15:00+00:00
Duration: 2 min 17 s
Description: Officials with both the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments are concerned about cases of a polio-like illness that has mostly afflicted children. The CDC has been tracking cases of the rare condition, which is called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, since a noted spike in 2014. The illness affects the patient's spinal cord and can cause paralysis.

Officials with both the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments are concerned about cases of a polio-like illness that has mostly afflicted children. The CDC has been tracking cases of the rare condition, which is called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, since a noted spike in 2014. The illness affects the patient's spinal cord and can cause paralysis.

Posted October 9, 2018 10:24pm EDT