It's a condition that turned up in children around here last fall, and now it's back. This is a serious condition where kids can experience weakness out of nowhere.
You might remember the stories last October where a half dozen parents told doctors that their children just all of a sudden caught a cold or a fever and then went weak in the muscles. The Centres for Disease Control says the nation saw almost six hundred cases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis, or AFM.
Michelle Cortez from Bloomberg says this condition tends to come around in the fall, so some people may have forgotten about it in the last 9 months.
The Centres for Disease Control says this fall could have a pretty large outbreak, or it might not be bad. It's just not sure. And, doctors can't say which children might come down with all the symptoms, just that it tends to hit 5 year olds.
Some children may just pass it without any symptoms.
Doctors say there isn't any treatment for AFM. It just has to run its course, but 60 percent of the patients ended up in intensive care with that paralysis last year. A quarter of those children needed to go on ventilators to help them breathe.
