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A rare but potentially paralyzing disease called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, has parents on alert. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the AFM has expanded to 24 states with 72 confirmed cases, including 10 new ones.
Camdyn Carr, age 4, is only one child affected by the disease. A photo of Camdyn taken on August 30 shows that he was infected with a sinus. But after 72 hours he was paralyzed.
"My son died on Tuesday," said his father, Chris. "He coded."
Fortunately, the doctors have reinstated Camdyn. Now, he is undergoing intensive treatment at the Baltimore Kennedy Krieger Institute. But an acute flaccid myelitis ravaged his body and he has a tube to help him breathe, making only a slight movement of a hand and a foot.
Sebastian Bottomley is following a treatment after having AFM.
CBS News
In an interview with John Dickerson, co-host of CBS This Morning, Director of CDC, Dr. Robert Redfield says that the agency still does not know what causes the disease that looks like polio, but that she "does not seem to be transmissible from man to man".
