More children in the United States suffer from a strange disabling disease

More children have been diagnosed with a mysterious paralyzing disease in recent weeks, and US health authorities still do not know what's causing the problem. in 2014 and 2016, the authorities indicated. The disease remains rare: according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 90 cases have been reported in 27 states.

It is still unclear what causes some children. lose the ability to move the face, neck, back, arms or legs. The symptoms usually appear about a week after the fever or respiratory illness in children.

Health authorities describe this condition as acute flaccid myelitis. Nobody died of the disease this year, but the fun ensures that at least half of the patients do not recover from paralysis and serious complications. Doctors suspect that the cause could be a type of enterovirus, which in most people causes cold symptoms.

The first wave of mysterious cases in 2014 coincided with a widespread increase in diseases related to an enterovirus called EV-D68.