peaks of the disease are produced every two years from August to November for 2014. In 2018, a total of 238 cases have been reported in the United States.
Alert in the United States. The Centres for prevention and disease control (CDC) have warned on Tuesday, parents and physicians on the probable return of a neurological disease, a very rare condition known as acute flaccid paralysis, probably caused by a virus and which returns mysteriously every two years, mainly in children.
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The CDC provide that “2020 will be a peak year for cases of acute flaccid paralysis”, or “AFM” in English. “The AFM is a medical emergency that requires immediate medical care and immediate supervision”, said Tuesday the director of the CDC, Robert Redfield, in a call to the press, imploring parents not to hesitate to hospitalize their child despite the pandemic of Covid-19.
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peaks of illness every two since 2014
peaks of the disease are produced every two years from August to November for 2014. In 2018, a total of 238 cases have been reported in the United States, with an average age of five years. The doctors are powerless, the disease can cause paralysis in a few hours or a few days, and no treatment has shown efficacy.
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“Unfortunately, the number of children reached by the AFM will have a permanent disability,” said Thomas Clark, a pediatrician and deputy director of viral diseases at the CDC. “It is very important that the children begin a re-education very quickly”. The authorities are in the process of contacting the families affected by the epidemic of 2018 to see how the disease has evolved in the children affected, and how many remain paralyzed to this day.
Of the first signals annunciators
the warning signs of the disease are first, the fever and respiratory symptoms and then, at the end of six days, on average, a weakness in the arms or legs, accompanied sometimes by difficulty of gait, pain in the neck or in the back, according to a report on all cases of 2018 issued on Tuesday.
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in Addition to permanent paralysis, it can also progress to respiratory complications severe, nearly a quarter of patients who required an artificial respirator. The disease affects the nervous system, mainly in the spinal cord, according to the MRI scans performed on patients. The prime suspects are viruses of the family of enteroviruses, particularly enterovirus D68, found in thirty patients, but the experts of the CDC can not exclude that another virus causes the disease.
