Highlights•A diverse spectrum of viruses can enter the CNS, causing acute and chronic
neurological disorders.•Virus-induced CNS diseases are influenced by routes of viral entry …

This review highlights clinical features of the increasing cases of acute flaccid paralysis
associated with anterior myelitis noted in the United States from 2012 to 2015. Acute flaccid …

Background Enterovirus D68 was implicated in a widespread outbreak of severe respiratory
illness across the USA in 2014 and has also been reported sporadically in patients with …

Background. During late summer/fall 2014, pediatric cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM)
occurred in the United States, coincident with a national outbreak of enterovirus D68 (EV …

More people were killed by smallpox during the twentieth century--over 300 million--than by
all of the wars of that period combined. In 1918 and 1919, influenza virus claimed over 50 …

In 2014, the United States experienced an epidemic of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) cases in
children coincident with a nationwide outbreak of enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) respiratory …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Enterovirus D68 was responsible for widespread
outbreaks of respiratory illness throughout the United States in August and September 2014 …

Reported outbreaks of respiratory, neurological, skin and eye diseases associated with
human enteroviruses have increased in frequency and size in recent years. Improved …

Background Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) has historically been a sporadic disease, causing
occasional small outbreaks of generally mild infection. In recent years, there has been …

Importance There has been limited surveillance for acute flaccid paralysis in North America
since the regional eradication of poliovirus. In 2012, the California Department of Public …