CDC reports 50 Acute flaccid myelitis cases in first eight months of 2016
by Robert Herriman from Outbreak News Today on (#1X1T1)
Since the beginning of the year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received 50 reports of cases of Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) from 24 states through the end of August. During the last half of 2014, 120 AFM cases were reported in the US, while in all of 2015, only 21 cases were reported. ["]