UNC-School of Medicine: Study Confirms Pathogenesis of EV-D68 Virus Causing Polio-like Paralyzing Illness in Children
May 27, 2022
May 27, 2022
CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, May 27 (TNSjou) -- The University of North Carolina School of Medicine issued the following news release:
Twelve years after a five-year-old boy died from acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), researchers continued to investigate the pathology and immune response of this polio-like illness. A new case report in the New England Journal of Medicine provides evidence that Enterovirus D68 RNA and protein were found in the spinal cord of preserved autopsy tissue- pro . . .
Twelve years after a five-year-old boy died from acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), researchers continued to investigate the pathology and immune response of this polio-like illness. A new case report in the New England Journal of Medicine provides evidence that Enterovirus D68 RNA and protein were found in the spinal cord of preserved autopsy tissue- pro . . .