polio-like illness

POLIO-LIKE ILLNESS PARALYZING CHILDREN IN CALIFORNIA

 

By Miriam Raftery

February 23, 2014 (San Diego's East County) - A frightening, polio-like illness  has stricken some 25 children in California, leaving them paralyzed, USA Today reports.  All have lost the ability to move at least one arm or leg, and some have lost all four limbs.


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