Researchers Learn More About The Mysterious Paralysis Affecting Children

The federal government says it's about the mysterious polio-like illness sickening kids across the United States, but the country's top researchers actually know a lot about the disease and what causes it, according to NBC News.

There has been more than one confirmed case of acute myelitis this year, but many more cases, including a handful in North Texas.

NBC News reports that doctors who have been studying with AFM have had evidence that enterovirus is the cause of the current AFM outbreak.

Experiments have shown that EV-D68 can invade nerve tissue, including the spine.

A team of academic researchers have formed their own network of 99% of people it is harmless in the world.

In the meantime, the CDC has not yet been found EV-D68 in confirmed cases and they are still looking at other possible causes.

EV-D68 was believed to be the cause of a similar outbreak of polio-like illness in 2014.

Kingston Robinson, of McKinney was diagnosed with tranverse myelitis, of which acute myelitis flaccid is a subset.

His doctor at the time, Dr. Benjamin Greenberg, told NBC 5, "One of the things that is unique about this variant of myelitis is not only will be weak, but they are very floppy. will be like wet spaghetti. "

Dr. Greenberg, associate professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center and director of the Transverse Myelitis and Neuromyelitis Optica Program at Children's Health, added, "we are going to see this virus year after year, and if it causes paralysis, then we need to do something about the virus itself. "