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CDC identifies 31 states with 116 confirmed cases of polio-like disease

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Texas is high on the list.

"There are now 286 cases of possible and confirmed acute flaccid myelitis in the United States this year, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That includes 116 confirmed cases of the rare polio-like illness, also known as AFM, that leads to sudden onset of paralysis. That's 10 more confirmed cases than the agency reported a week ago. An additional 170 possible cases of AFM are under investigation."

 

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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/11/26/health/acute-flaccid-myelitis-afm-numbers/index.html

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9 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

The bi annual pattern involved seems strange. 

I don't know what that means but...

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7 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Is this a new strain or related to god damn anti vaxxer dumbshits?

Not related to polio in any way. 

41 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Not related to polio in any way. 

I’ve read speculation that it’s related to the same “family” of virus as polio,  But yeah, not actual polio. 

You are right, one of the theories is that it is a different enterovirus. But there appears no relationship with polio vaccination, or lack thereof. Summary from CDC:

https://www.cdc.gov/acute-flaccid-myelitis/afm-surveillance.html

What CDC has learned since 2014

  • Most of the patients with AFM (more than 90%) had a mild respiratory illness or fever consistent with a viral infection before they developed AFM.
    • Viral infections such as from enteroviruses are common, especially in children, and most people recover. We don’t know why a small number of people develop AFM, while most others recover. We are continuing to investigate this.
  • These AFM cases are not caused by poliovirus; all the stool specimens from AFM patients that we received tested negative for poliovirus.
  • We detected coxsackievirus A16, EV-A71, and EV-D68 in the spinal fluid of four of 440 confirmed cases of AFM since 2014, which points to the cause of their AFM. For all other patients, no pathogen (germ) has been detected in their spinal fluid to confirm a cause.
  • Most patients had onset of AFM between August and October, with increases in AFM cases every two years since 2014. At this same time of year, many viruses commonly circulate, including enteroviruses, and will be temporally associated with AFM.
  • Most AFM cases are children (over 90%) and have occurred in 46 states and DC.

 

 

 

How does Chris Del Conte have time for this when he's answering all those Twitter questions?

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14 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

We detected coxsackievirus A16, EV-A71, and EV-D68 in the spinal fluid of four of 440 confirmed cases of AFM since 2014, which points to the cause of their AFM. For all other

 

I have contracted acute, flaccid coxsackiervirus on occasion. Usually after dollar margarita night down at Applebee's.

34 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

You are right, one of the theories is that it is a different enterovirus. But there appears no relationship with polio vaccination, or lack thereof. Summary from CDC:

https://www.cdc.gov/acute-flaccid-myelitis/afm-surveillance.html

What CDC has learned since 2014

  • Most of the patients with AFM (more than 90%) had a mild respiratory illness or fever consistent with a viral infection before they developed AFM.
    • Viral infections such as from enteroviruses are common, especially in children, and most people recover. We don’t know why a small number of people develop AFM, while most others recover. We are continuing to investigate this.
  • These AFM cases are not caused by poliovirus; all the stool specimens from AFM patients that we received tested negative for poliovirus.
  • We detected coxsackievirus A16, EV-A71, and EV-D68 in the spinal fluid of four of 440 confirmed cases of AFM since 2014, which points to the cause of their AFM. For all other patients, no pathogen (germ) has been detected in their spinal fluid to confirm a cause.
  • Most patients had onset of AFM between August and October, with increases in AFM cases every two years since 2014. At this same time of year, many viruses commonly circulate, including enteroviruses, and will be temporally associated with AFM.
  • Most AFM cases are children (over 90%) and have occurred in 46 states and DC.

 

 

 

Yeah, the limited reading I've done on this seems to hint at some sort of relative of polio doing this.  Just spitballin' here, but you know how nature abhors a vacuum?   So, we effectively eliminate polio (we have, in the western world).  Mother Nature says "oh yeah?  Well, here's polio 2, electric boogaloo!"  Polio was no bueno.  Polio 2 doesn't sound fun either.

19 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Cocksackvirus? Really?

Flaccid cocksack virus.

Not related, but we had a nextdoor neighbor who was in high school and supposedly had a spinal stroke and woke up not able to move. He has been in a wheelchair since. I can't imagine what it would be like to be perfectly fine one day and to wake up paralyzed the next.

 

1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Yeah, the limited reading I've done on this seems to hint at some sort of relative of polio doing this.  Just spitballin' here, but you know how nature abhors a vacuum?   So, we effectively eliminate polio (we have, in the western world).  Mother Nature says "oh yeah?  Well, here's polio 2, electric boogaloo!"  Polio was no bueno.  Polio 2 doesn't sound fun either.

Nah, this probably would have happened anyway.

 

1 hour ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

i'm triggered by anti-vaxxers so I automatically assumed this was their fault somehow.

 

Don't worry, at some point they'll develop a vaccine that anti-vaxxers can not take.

2 hours ago, Anastasis said:

You are right, one of the theories is that it is a different enterovirus. But there appears no relationship with polio vaccination, or lack thereof. Summary from CDC:

https://www.cdc.gov/acute-flaccid-myelitis/afm-surveillance.html

What CDC has learned since 2014

  • Most of the patients with AFM (more than 90%) had a mild respiratory illness or fever consistent with a viral infection before they developed AFM.
    • Viral infections such as from enteroviruses are common, especially in children, and most people recover. We don’t know why a small number of people develop AFM, while most others recover. We are continuing to investigate this.
  • These AFM cases are not caused by poliovirus; all the stool specimens from AFM patients that we received tested negative for poliovirus.
  • We detected coxsackievirus A16, EV-A71, and EV-D68 in the spinal fluid of four of 440 confirmed cases of AFM since 2014, which points to the cause of their AFM. For all other patients, no pathogen (germ) has been detected in their spinal fluid to confirm a cause.
  • Most patients had onset of AFM between August and October, with increases in AFM cases every two years since 2014. At this same time of year, many viruses commonly circulate, including enteroviruses, and will be temporally associated with AFM.
  • Most AFM cases are children (over 90%) and have occurred in 46 states and DC.

 

 

 

So what you're saying is we are one virus away from the zombie apocalypse?

30 minutes ago, Bevo said:

Not related, but we had a nextdoor neighbor who was in high school and supposedly had a spinal stroke and woke up not able to move. He has been in a wheelchair since. I can't imagine what it would be like to be perfectly fine one day and to wake up paralyzed the next.

Heh, never been married I see.

i'll need to see this map cross referenced with the college imperialism map to draw any proper conclusions.

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