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| CDC's handling of polio-like illness criticized by its own advisers |
| 2018-10-31 |
| 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. "This is the CDC's job. This is what they're supposed to do well. And it's a source of frustration to many of us that they're apparently not doing these things," said Dr. Kenneth Tyler, a professor and chair of the department of neurology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and another adviser to the CDC on AFM. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 Death gets a priority over crippling and dismembering (unless its abortion). |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-10-31 06:51 |
| #1 Ebola got more attention. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-10-31 04:41 |