Families Push Officials to Tackle Mystery of AFM
By Jennifer Clopton
Nov. 20, 2018 -- Katie and J.P. Bustamante’s youngest son, Alex, died at the age of 6 -- a year and a half after contracting acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM. For the California couple, their child caught what they thought was just a cold, only to realize days later it is actually a rare and mysterious polio-like illness.
First, it paralyzed their son at a shocking speed. Eventually, the family says, it killed him. Doctors, they say, never did understand what was happening to their boy or what to do about it.
https://www.webmd.com/children/news/20181120/families-push-officials-to-tackle-mystery-of-afm
