Acute Flaccid Paralysis

Amid a growing COVID-19 pandemic, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, or GPEI, recommended that polio vaccination campaigns be postponed until the second half of the year and that countries responding to outbreaks of polio suspend those efforts until June 1, and then re-evaluate the situation.

In 2014, there was an unexpected surge in the number of children in the United States who experienced sudden unexplained limb weakness and paralysis, particularly after a viral illness. The seemingly new condition, now recognized as acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, is a subset of acute flaccid paralysis.

In 2014, there was an unexpected surge in the number of children in the United States who experienced sudden unexplained limb weakness and paralysis, particularly after a viral illness. The seemingly new condition, now recognized as acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, is a subset of acute flaccid paralysis.