Hospitalizations have climbed drastically in recent weeks, causing concern among health experts that an even more pronounced surge could be in store for a winter where COVID-19 cases are once again expected to climb.
Friday warned of a spike in enterovirus D68, which most commonly leads to respiratory illness among kids, with symptoms that are often mild but can become severe. The enterovirus family is large, and polio falls within it; both EV-D68 and poliovirus can invade the nervous system and cause muscle weakness.
Occasionally, EV-D68 can result in a condition called acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM, which is characterized by inflammation in the neck region of the spinal cord. Some people who experience AFM have difficulty moving their arms, while others experience weakness in all four extremities. During a large outbreak in the U.S. in 2014, around Full recovery from AFM is rare, and although most patients improve to some extent, the process is often difficult, and it requires rehabilitation.
"A lot of the viruses that are circulating now and increasing now are things that we didn't see for a couple of years because of COVID," said Dr. Isaac Ghinai, a medical director for the Chicago Department of Public Health. "So symptoms are, you know, what you'd expect: runny noses, coughing, maybe even fevers," she said."And the good thing is a lot of these kids can typically recover at home. It becomes a different scenario when it's kids who are immunocompromised, kids that are younger - so the young babies that are at home under 1 year old - and then those that have high risk illnesses like asthma.
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