By IDSE News Staff
Australian researchers have identified strong evidence that enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is the cause of a mystery polio-like illness that has paralyzed children in the United States, Canada and Europe.
“In 2014, children in the U.S. began to be diagnosed with a mystery illness that caused a polio-like paralysis,” said C. Raina MacIntyre, MBBS, MS, PhD, FRACP, FAFPHM, the director of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence, Integrated Systems for Epidemic Response, the