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Has polio returned to the United States? Probably not, but news reports in the past couple of days out of California sure have folks at the Centers for Disease Control and several medical groups concerned. Polio is a highly contagious disease that was wiped out from developed countries, including the United States, decades ago thanks to widespread use of successful polio vaccines. [READ: Polio-like Disease Appears in California Children] But there are other enteroviruses that can cause polio-like illnesses, and something akin to the disease may have shown up in up to 25 children in California since 2012, according to Keith Van Haren, a pediatric neurologist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., where these cases have been identified. ... usnews/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2014/02/27/mystery-polio-like-disease-emerges-in-california
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 14:56:25 +0000

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