What parents should know about the polio-like paralyzing disease the CDC is warning about

According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more polio cases affect children.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated at least 386 possible cases of acute flaccid osteomyelitis and confirmed 62 cases in 22 provinces this year.

Nancy Maison, director of the National Center for Immunization Control and Prevention Center vaccination and respiratory diseases, said that this "dramatic" and serious disease has attracted attention throughout the country. Of the cases confirmed, 90% are children. Average age is 4 years old

Acute flaccid myelitis is a rare disease affecting the spinal cord region called gray matter and causing paralysis. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that the cause of most AFM cases is unknown, but some cases are related to other viruses. There is no concrete treatment, and the long-term effect is still unknown.

"If you or your child suddenly weakens or loses tension in the muscles of the arms and legs, I recommend that parents seek immediate medical attention," Messonnier said. Symptoms include the face, hanging eyelids, eye movements, difficulty swallowing, obscure utterances and so on. In severe cases, the child becomes difficult to breathe, and the muscle strength decreases, so a ventilator is needed.

Incidents have increased since 2014, but AFM still affects a small percentage of the population - less than 1 million people per year

At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we recommend that you follow ordinary disease prevention measures such as vaccination, hand washing, wearing insect repellent.

At the same time, in the summer of 2014, children started to be attacked by mysterious polio diseases in 34 provinces. More than 100 children are affected and many children are paralyzed forever. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention already guess possible causes, but there is no official discovery of the cause of many young people being accused of virus as well as those eradicated in the United States in 1979. According to PBS, at least 90,000 illegal immigrants enter the country in 2014, and 140 thousand illegal immigrants entered by the end of 2015. Approximately 250 thousand children, excluding other "families" still in the country of Latin America

Polio was a serious problem in most of Africa at that time. This disease is seen in more than 125 countries, 350 thousand people die each year, most of them are infants. Yet one year before the arrival in Uganda, Member States of the World Health Organization, led by Rotary International, set the goal of eradicating polio from a global perspective. Once the country removes the virus it may be reintroduced from the outside. Since 2008, more than 20 countries have been infected again. They have to make great efforts to remove the virus again, sometimes in very difficult situations like Syria and Somalia. Recently, Nigeria was thought to be in a state without polio, but in August it was discovered that the virus was hiding in a distant and torn area in the war.

In order to eradicate all polio including vaccine related cases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) decided to use IPV as the sole vaccine in the United States. Currently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) administer IPV intermittently 3 times 18 months ago, it is recommended to administer IPV booster between 4 and 6 years old when a child enters doing. Acute illness usually lasts within 2 weeks, but nerve damage may last for a lifetime. In the past, some polio patients have never regained their full use of their limbs, it seems to have withered. A fully recovered person may continue to develop post polio syndrome (PPS) 30 to 40 years after polio infection. In PPS, nerve damage during disease causes normal slowing down due to aging