Children’s Hospital Colorado

This is a wonderful place. Our energy, space, people, and discovery are mysterious. Our motivation is also like magic. As unbelievable belief that you can eradicate childhood diseases, someday your kids will no longer need us like magic.

In the summer of 2014, Kevin Mesakar, a pediatrician at Colorado Children's Hospital, began watching the waves of unexplained children. Everyone is doing the same story. One day they caught a cold. Next, they can not move their arms and legs. In some children, paralysis is relatively mild, but other children must be supported by a ventilator and feeding tube after stopping breathing and swallowing. This situation is very similar to polio - a viral disease that is about to be eliminated globally. However, none of the children detected poliovirus positive. Instead, their condition was given a new name: acute flaccid osteomyelitis or AFM. That year, 120 people, mainly young children, developed illness in 34 states. These cases peaked in September and then rapidly declined

To date, Colorado Children's Hospital has treated more than a dozen children with AMF so far. Most of them detected enterovirus A71 positive, only positive test D68 strain. Samuel Dominguez, a childhood infectious disease physician at a hospital, said good news is that most children with enterovirus A71 have recovered. Enterovirus D68 did not do. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention not only focuses on enteroviruses as the main incentive. When collecting samples from the respiratory tract, their AFM response event manager said that a significant proportion of patients were entero-virus positive, although not most patients.