CDC's handling of polio-like illness criticized by its own advisers
By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent
Updated 2:29 PM ET, Tue October 30, 2018
Moms give CDC an 'F' for handling of polio-like illness
Since 2014, there have been 396 confirmed cases of acute flaccid myelitis, which resembles polio and causes paralysis in children
Albany, Oregon (CNN)The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's own medical advisers are criticizing the federal health agency for being slow to respond to a polio-like disease that's struck hundreds of children over the past six years.
"Frustrated and disappointed -- I think that's exactly how most of us feel," said Dr. Keith Van Haren, one of the CDC advisers on AFM and an assistant professor of neurology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Van Haren and other doctors who care for these children say the agency has been slow to gather data and to guide pediatricians and emergency room physicians on how to diagnose and treat the children struck with the disease, acute flaccid myelitis.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/29/health/cdc-afm-response/index.html?no-st=1541008995
