Five children in California contracted a rare disease

Experts have identified a polio-like disease that has caused severe weakness or rapid paralysis very one or two hands or legs in five children from California in 2012. Scientists presented 14 July 2014 the results of their study at the 66th Annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in Pennsylvania. One of the experts Dr. Kate Ban Haren of Stanford University, says:
"Although poliovirus has been destroyed in most parts of the globe, other viruses can also injure the spine, leading to a polio-like syndromes".

She explains that over the past 10 years, researchers have identified strains of enterovirus associated with similar polio outbreaks among children in Australia and Asia.

"These five new cases have highlighted concerns about the emergence of infectious, similar to the symptoms of polio syndrome in California."

The incidents have raised five children, a sudden illness which left them paralyzed in one or more limbs, just two days after the onset of signs. All children received the polio vaccinations beforehand, and three of them were observed in respiratory disease before the first symptoms. In the treatment, they did not improve, and the functions of the limbs of children even after six months has not improved.

While no cause was identified in three of the children, the other two responded positively to a rare virus – enterovirus 68 — that has previously, scientists have linked with symptoms similar to polio.

Source: globalscience.ru