By IDSE News Staff
A recent case report provides evidence that enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) directly infects spinal cord neurons, leading to a robust immune response—a direct causation of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), which resulted in large outbreaks seen in 2014, 2016 and 2018 (N Engl J Med 2022;386:2059-2060).
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