Otherwise healthy children seem stricken at random with limb paralysis and difficulty breathing

7/13/2019. Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) is a type of inflammation in the spinal cord…

No one knows what causes it, or why it started in California and is primarily in the United States. There were also 59 cases in Canada in 2018. In 2018 there were 233 cases of AFM, with 46 cases in California and Texas (20 percent). Texas had over twice as many as California. It only follows reason that with California and Texas as hot-spots, this disease must have spread to Mexico. An internet search showed nothing. A search on South America: nothing. Very strange. Unless the disease began south of the border, in which case our dear Democrat politicians wouldn’t want that fact to get out. This started out being a non-political post on an odd illness, but it seems there is no escape from the cesspool of political fact-blocking for votes. Don’t Ever believe science is immune from politics.

Since we don’t know the cause of most of these AFM cases or what triggers this condition, there is no specific action to take to prevent AFM. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

This biannual pattern is very unusual in the natural world http://wordpress.utoledo.edu/disastermedicine/category/acute-flaccid-myelitis-afm/

Spread from California out and north, even up to Canada. In 2018 the most cases are in Texas. http://wordpress.utoledo.edu/disastermedicine/category/acute-flaccid-myelitis-afm

Signs and Symptoms: “Most of those diagnosed with AFM report having a respiratory or gastrointestinal illness before the onset of weakness. The predominant presentation is a rapid onset of weakness that may affect the limbs, face, oropharyngeal muscles, or the muscles that control breathing…”