An increase in reports of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) in the United Kingdom, 1 January 2018–21 January 2019: early findings
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Author(s)
The United Kingdom Acute Flaccid Paralysis A F P Task Force
Ramsay, Mary
Dunning, Jake
Foulkes, Sarah
Lopez, Jamie
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
During 2018, the United Kingdom experienced an increase in reports of cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). As at 21 January 2019, 40 cases had been identified with a peak in October 2018. The increase was temporally associated with an upsurge in enterovirus (EV) D68 activity. Enterovirus was detected in 15 cases, mainly from respiratory tract samples; nine were typed as EV-D68. A national task force has been established and investigations are ongoing.
Date Issued
2019-02-07
Date Acceptance
2019-02-07
Citation
Eurosurveillance, 2019, 24 (6)
ISSN
1560-7917
Publisher
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Journal / Book Title
Eurosurveillance
Volume
24
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
© 2019, the authors or their affiliated institutions. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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Identifier
https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.6.1900093
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Infectious Diseases
MYELITIS
EV-D68
STATES
Acute flaccid paralysis
United Kingdom
acute flaccid myelitis
enterovirus D68
public health
Notes
eid: 1900093
Publication Status
Published