See on Scoop.it – Episurveillance

Brian Altonen‘s insight:

Take your pick . . .

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Three interpretations of a new disease pattern, be it emerging, re-emerging, neither, or because we simply do not know:

 

“These five new cases highlight the possibility of an emerging infectious polio-like syndrome in California,” author Emanuelle Waubant, MD at UCSF.

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“We would like to stress that this syndrome appears to be very, very rare . . .Any time a parent sees symptoms of paralysis in a child, the child should be seen by a doctor right away.”  Stanford’s Keith Van Haren, MD 

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“At this time, CDC does not think the situation in California is a cause for public concern,” Jamila H. Jones,  CDC public health educator, to the AP.

 

Three newer stories on this growing concern:

 

Reuters news:  http://rt.com/usa/polio-paralysis-california-children-692/

 

Boston globe:  https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/2014/03/03/how-worried-should-about-new-polio-like-virus/D44YZgt3mKHSLgQLdvXYnN/story.html

 

Stanford:  http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2014/march/polio-0310.html

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