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Renewal of Polio?!?!

After a deadly battle with polio, during the 20th century, we thought that polio was almost completely eradicated. However, during the summer of 2014, 120 people were put into a hospital with a polio-like condition. But just as fast as it came it was gone. Then this virus(named AFM) struck again in 2016, sending 150 to the hospital. One thing troubled the doctors, all of the patients suddenly out of nowhere would become paralyzed. However, AFM is uncommon, the hospital only hears about a couple hundred cases a year. AFM is an enterovirus, which means that this virus circulates during the fall season, however, enteroviruses need a large population to let the virus circulate or the virus only will happen in small bursts. The virus also only affects younger children, the youngest being 4 at the moment.


During 2014 there was a breakthrough, doctors allied all of the pieces and connect AFM
with the enterovirus disease known as,  EV-D68. The CDC is aware of this but is not aware of the potential of the EV-D68. This virus keeps disappearing and reappearing, for example during 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. Most of the research done for this virus has been done by Doctor Messacar.

Recently the third wave of AFM has arisen and Messacar predicts a huge wave will hit during 2020.
Do you think we are ready as a nation to take on this virus? Will this result in a similar case to polio?

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