Acute Flaccid Myelitis Among Children — Washington, September–November 2016

Acute Flaccid Myelitis Among Children — Washington, September–November 2016

In October 2016, Seattle Children's Hospital notified the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) and CDC of a cluster of acute onset of limb weakness in children aged ≤14 years. All patients had distinctive spinal lesions largely restricted to gray matter detected by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), consistent with acute flaccid myelitis (AFM). On November 3, DOH issued a health advisory ...

Acute Flaccid Myelitis Outbreak.

Investigators from the University School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, report an outbreak of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) occurring in 2014-2015 in several States and reported to the CDC.

Enterovirus D68–Associated Acute Flaccid Myelitis in Immunocompromised Woman, Italy

In Italy in 2016, acute flaccid myelitis developed in a woman who had received a hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Enterovirus D68 viral genome was detected in respiratory and cerebrospinal fluid samples, and the viral protein 1 sequence clustered with lineage B3. Immunocompromised adults may be at risk for enterovirus D68-associated neurologic complications.

Acute Flaccid Myelitis Among Persons Aged ≤21 Years — United States, August 1–November 13, 2014

Division of Viral Diseases, National Centers for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC; Children’s Hospital Colorado; Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists In August 2014, physicians at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora...

First Cluster of Acute Flaccid Myelitis Related to Enterovirus D-68 in Argentinean Children