PRO/EDR> Acute flaccid myelitis – USA: human enterovirus D68 susp

Enterovirus 68 — United States
Before dinner on 29 Jul 2016, a 3-year-old from Chesterfield, Virginia, seemed perfectly healthy. That evening, he vomited. When he woke up the next morning with a slight fever of 99 deg F [37.2 deg C], his mother figured that he was coming down with a cold. The next morning, she found him collapsed on his bedroom floor.
“Mommy,” she recalls him saying. “Help me, help me.” The boy could barely stand when his mother picked him up, and his neck was arched backward. “What was most alarming,”