Many of the children with paralysis also got the virus, but initially they weren’t any sicker than their siblings or peers — until they experienced sudden muscle weakness days later. Some of the ...

Rates of enterovirus D68 infections are on the rise across the United States, according to the nonprofit WastewaterSCAN network. This common virus can lead to a rare but serious polio-like ...

Several dozen children in California and Colorado have suffered paralyzed limbs, which doctors speculate could be caused by the respiratory virus... When nine children in one hospital in Colorado come ...

After virtually disappearing for several years amid measures aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now urging doctors to be vigilant for a renewed ...

A UC San Francisco doctor reviews microscopic imagery in February 2017 on enterovirus D68 and its effects on children. (Paul Chinn / San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) A respiratory virus that ...

NEW YORK -- Health officials are investigating nine cases of muscle weakness or paralysis in Colorado children and whether the culprit might be a virus causing severe respiratory illness across the ...

Only one of 103 children stricken by a mysterious, polio-like illness have recovered, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children in 34 states have developed a sudden, ...

Physicians who treat children who develop a strange polio-like syndrome known as acute flaccid myelitis had been steeling themselves this fall for an onslaught of cases of the irreversible condition, ...

After virtually disappearing for several years amid measures aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now urging doctors to be vigilant for a renewed ...

It might be hard to instruct kids in day care and other young kids to avoid chewing objects that other kids have put into their mouths, but older kids can be taught to avoid touching their faces with ...