What is it about?
Reviews the epidemiological evidence that EVD68 is a cause of acute flaccid myelitis- a polio like illness
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Why is it important?
This virus was likely responsible for many of the more than 100 cases of AFM occurring in 2014 and again in 2016 in the U.S.
Perspectives
The causes of AFM are likely multiple but EVD68 should be added to the list of viruses causing this polio-like syndrome
Chair of Neurology, Univ. CO School of Medicine Kenneth L Tyler
University of Colorado
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This page is a summary of: Enterovirus D68 and acute flaccid myelitis—evaluating the evidence for causality, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, August 2018, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/s1473-3099(18)30094-x.
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