Vital Signs: Surveillance for Acute Flaccid Myelitis --- United States, 2018
by from Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on (#4JTCE)
Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) was initially defined as a distinct entity in 2014 following reports of the occurrence of acute limb weakness in previously healthy children across the United States during an outbreak of severe respiratory disease caused by enterovirus D-68 (EV-D68).