{"id":557,"date":"2022-09-29T08:35:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T13:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=557"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:22:36","slug":"cdc-warns-about-enterovirus-d68-the-virus-linked-to-paralysis-in-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/09\/29\/cdc-warns-about-enterovirus-d68-the-virus-linked-to-paralysis-in-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC Warns About Enterovirus D68, the Virus Linked to Paralysis in Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prevention.com\/health\/a41426566\/enterovirus-d68-respiratory-infection-cdc\/\">Prevention<\/a> &#8211; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning about an increase of a respiratory illness that\u2019s linked to paralysis in kids. It\u2019s called enterovirus D68, and the CDC says it\u2019s currently on the rise in the U.S. The CDC shared the news in its\u00a0<em>Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report<\/em>, which points out that enterovirus D68 cases started to rise this summer after an \u201cextended period\u201d of a low number of cases during the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0pandemic. The report details how, in August, doctors in several areas of the country notified the CDC of an increase in hospitalizations of kids with \u201csevere respiratory illness\u201d and positive results for enterovirus D68 (EV-D68). This has led to \u201csubstantial resource demands\u201d in some hospitals and have also \u201ccoincided\u201d with increases in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/acute-flaccid-myelitis\/about-afm.html#:~:text=Acute%20flaccid%20myelitis%20(AFM)%20is,and%202018%20in%20the%20U.S.\" target=\"_blank\">acute flaccid myelitis<\/a>, an uncommon but serious neurologic condition that causes the muscles and reflexes in the body to become weak. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7140e1.htm?s_cid=mm7140e1_w\">Link to CDC MMWR Report<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"KN eRsSkKhunvI Mu R eaekM\">KN eRsSkKhunvI Mu R eaekM<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prevention &#8211; The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning about an increase of a respiratory illness that\u2019s linked to paralysis in kids. It\u2019s called enterovirus D68, and the CDC says it\u2019s currently on the rise in the U.S. The CDC shared the news in its\u00a0Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which points out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,36,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases","category-enterovirus","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":558,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}