CDC Ramps Up Response to Polio-Like Outbreak
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has raised its response to a polio-like illness that has stricken children with paralysis in 29 states. Acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, is not a new disease, but the frequency of reported cases has increased drastically since 2014 when the CDC first started investigating the illness. The CDC has hired 14 new “disease detectives”—Epidemic Intelligence Service officers—to try and identify the cause of the outbreak.
