Virus identified as a cause of paralyzing condition in Minnesota children (AFM)

startribune.com ^ | 4/18 /19 | Jeremy Olson

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A virus (AFM - acute flaccid myelitis) appears to be the cause behind a rash of polio-like illnesses that struck Minnesota last fall,
causing paralyzing symptoms in several children, including one girl who lost all motor function and remains hospitalized.

Researchers from Minnesota and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday
that they found Enterovirus-D68 in the spinal fluid of one of six children
who suffered acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM.
The first public reports of AFM in 2018 showed up in Minnesota, which ended the year with 10 of the nation’s 228 confirmed cases.

EV-D68 has been suspected for some time as a cause, in part because of surveillance data since 2012
showing that spikes in AFM cases emerged in lockstep with the virus every other fall in 2014, 2016 and 2018.

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“[AFM] is incredibly scary for patients and families,” said Dr. Heidi Moline, the lead author of the report
and the University of Minnesota’s chief pediatrics resident.
“The fact that we were able to definitively identify the EV-D68 virus as the cause of paralysis in one of our Minnesota patients
does suggest this virus as a probable cause in our other recent AFM cases.”

EV-D68 has been suspected for some time as a cause, in part because of surveillance data since 2012 showing that spikes
in AFM cases emerged in lockstep with the virus every other fall in 2014, 2016 and 2018.
Despite suspicions about EV-D68, doctors and clinicians had struggled to find it in the spinal fluid of afflicted children.
California and Colorado have both reported high numbers of cases since 2014.

Cases of AFM were confirmed last year in 41 states but mostly occurred in regional clusters,
presumably in states where EV-D68 and other viruses are prevalent.
California and Colorado have both reported high numbers of cases since 2014.

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Infectious Disease - AFM (Virus) - affects mostly children with polio like symptoms

AFM cases emerged in lockstep with the virus every other fall in 2014, 2016 and 2018.
Time to prepare for 2020.

[redshawk]

Sorry, I thought this was about that muzzle cretin.

[fella]

Quick force everyone to take an untested vaccine from a company that is totally exempt liability.

[Ancesthntr]

“Sorry, I thought this was about that muzzle cretin.”

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It might, indirectly - I wouldn’t be surprised if someone from Somalia (not noted as having a first class medical care system, given that it is a shithole) brought that over. That person or people might be immune, or partially immune, due to prior exposure or natural immunity, but could have acted as a carrier.

While I cannot say for sure if that’s the case with this disease, it IS a fact that many other diseases have been brought into the country by illegal immigrants (i.e. those who have NOT gone through any kind of medical examination prior to entry, like my wife did prior to getting her fiance visa).

[Will88]

Has this condition been diagnosed in any nation other than the US? That seems like very relevant information. Don’t recall that being answered in several previous articles on this subject.

[Hulka]

In other words. . .third-world illegal alien disease carriers coming to the US with no immunizations and no medical exams on what they carry. . .

[wastoute]

You didn’t notice the places where it is happening are the illegal alien/asylum states? Last year they admitted this virus was due to the influx of migrants. I guess they forgot in the interval.

[Jim Noble]

I have believed it was D68 for at least two years.

Should be able to produce a vaccine, after all, polio 1, 2, and 3 are the enterovirus family prototypes.

[arthurus]

I believe that it is native to Central America.

[Jim Noble]

My kids will be vaccinated as soon as there is product.

I got vaccinated against polio in 1955. This vaccine will have the same attributes.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks!

I re read this article to see if what you posted was in the article. It was not. Thanks again.

You didn’t notice the places where it is happening are the illegal alien/asylum states? Last year, they admitted this virus was due to the influx of migrants. I guess they forgot in the interval.

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:" Has this condition been diagnosed in any nation other than the US?
That seems like very relevant information."

Freeper "trebb" did further research on 12/18/18 and found:
" A71 - First identified in the United States in 1969, enterovirus A71 (EV-A71)
is one of more than 100 non-polio enteroviruses.
Worldwide, EV-A71 is a common cause of hand, foot, and mouth disease in infants and young children."

The paralysis occurs as the virus attacks the lining of the nervous system, and then seems to disappear,
thus not being found in spinal fluid of patients , most of whom are youth.
That is part of the mystery of this illness - sometimes it remains,
and sometimes it can't be found to conclusively correlate the virus to the paralysis.

[Bonemaker]

“...Enterovirus-D68...”

Another unwanted immigrant.

[Will88]

From Wikipedia

Enterovirus 68 (EV68, EV-D68, HEV68) is a member of the Picornaviridae family, an enterovirus. First isolated in California in 1962 and once considered rare, it has been on a worldwide upswing in the 21st century.[2][3][4] It is suspected of causing a polio-like disorder called acute flaccid myelitis.

Since its discovery in 1962, EV68 had been described mostly sporadically in isolated cases. Six clusters (equal to or more than 10 cases) or outbreaks between 2005 and 2011 have been reported from the Philippines, Japan, the Netherlands, and the states of Georgia, Pennsylvania and Arizona in the United States.[7] EV68 was found in 2 of 5 children during a 2012/13 cluster of polio-like disease in California.[8] In 2016, 29 cases were reported in Europe (5 in France and Scotland. 3 each in Sweden, Norway and Spain).[9]

Enterovirus 68

In most everything I've read on this, there seems to be a lack of curiosity about where it originated, and where else it's been diagnosed. Being first detected in California definitely suggests it "immigrated" from some other nation.

Many nations probably don't have the means to identify the virus in many cases.

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Will88 :" Being first detected in California definitely suggests it "immigrated" from some other nation.
Many nations probably don't have the means to identify the virus in many cases. "

All of that's true.
But don't forget that viri don't depend on DNA or RNA.
Thus, they are more easily able to mutate and become more virilant, adaptive, and dangerous.

[Bob434]

[[I got vaccinated against polio in 1955.]]

yep- parents did too- polio hit pretty hard in the area they grew up in- several people and teachers in their school got it and it devastated them- I had one of them as a teacher later- and she could hardly get around- polio was a terrible terrible thing-

[cherry]

somalians are becoming a large minority in Minn.......they are bringing their third world diseases/poor hygiene/rape culture and anything can happen.

[knarf]

Don't be too hasty ....

What's it's origin ... Somalia ?

[Will88]

There seems to be little curiosity about how diseases get to the US these days, such as the reemergence of measles, mumps and whooping cough in some areas. The powers that be seem satisfied to just blame those on the anti-vaxxers and make no mention of what the hundreds of thousands entering the US illegally might be spreading.