CU Anschutz In The News

Fifteen people, most of them children, have come down with AFM, acute flaccid myelitis, a disease that paralyzes the limbs, causes seizures, and makes it difficult to breathe. Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine are now infecting mice in an attempt to learn more about this. It's a very rare disease, affecting about one in one million kids. But, for families fighting it, it's also very real. Doctors like Joyce Oleszek at Children's Hospital and researchers at the CU School of Medicine are now leading the charge nationwide on studying and trying to understand AFM’s mysterious reappearance since a similar outbreak in 2014. "Let's get children in quickly so we can get treatment started, diagnose them and help with recovery," Oleszek said.