Many of the children with paralysis also got the virus, but initially they weren’t any sicker than their siblings or peers — until they experienced sudden muscle weakness days later. Some of the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported a spike in EV-D68, a virus in rare cases can lead to permanent paralysis in children. The agency sent out a warning on 9 September ...

A UC San Francisco doctor reviews microscopic imagery in February 2017 on enterovirus D68 and its effects on children. (Paul Chinn / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) A respiratory virus that ...

Only one of 103 children stricken by a mysterious, polio-like illness have recovered, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children in 34 states have developed a sudden, ...

Several dozen children in California and Colorado have suffered paralyzed limbs, which doctors speculate could be caused by the respiratory virus... When nine children in one hospital in Colorado come ...

NEW YORK -- Health officials are investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in Colorado children and whether the culprit might be a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the ...

After virtually disappearing for several years amid measures aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now urging doctors to be vigilant for a renewed ...

A nationwide outbreak of a respiratory virus last fall sent droves of children to emergency departments. The infections have now subsided, as researchers knew they would, but they have left behind a ...

One of the children admitted to Nairobi Hospital Friday after an injection at a dispensary in Busia County. Some 28 children got the injection and have now been partially paralysed. The injection was ...

A respiratory virus that in rare cases can cause polio-like paralysis in children is on the rise in California and across the nation, according to wastewater analyses. Enterovirus D68 was detected in ...