Acute Flaccid Paralysis | LocalHealthGuide

October 18, 2018 Brain and Nervous System / Child Health

Mysterious Polio-Like Illness Baffles Experts

A spike in the number of children with a rare neurological disease that causes polio-like symptoms –acute flaccid paralysis–has officials across scrambling.

Five children hospitalized with sudden onset paralysis in Washington state.

All cases are among infants and children under age six who all reportedly had symptoms of a respiratory illness in the week prior to developing symptoms of “acute flaccid paralysis.”