Polio-like disease in Massachusetts
Doctors in Massachusetts hospitals have confirmed two cases acute flaccid myelitis also known as AMF. This Polio-like diseases is causing paralysis in its victims nation wide mostly being contracted by children around the age of four. Massachusetts General Hospital is working with patients to try and help find the cure and hopefully discover its cause. The disease cripples the patient by causes muscle weakness and paralysis. AMF does this by attacking the spinal cord and or brain stem. After it infects it shows it's symptoms in any number or ways including, loss of bladder control, difficulty breathing, and weakness in an arm or a leg that can spread to other extremities sometimes with pain. Slurred speech, difficulty moving the eyes, facial weakness in one so young can also be a sign of AMF. The CDC has been following this disease since 2014 and there are fewer than 70 patients across the country with it. This makes the disease extremely rare even though it can feel as t...