An alarming rise in the number of cases of a mysterious polio-like illness that produces paralysis in young children is said to have “health officials scrambling to figure out the cause.”[1]  Baffled infectious disease experts are quoted to say: “What we do know is that these patients had fever and respiratory symptoms 3 to 10 days before their limb weakness.” But the primary culprit, believed to be enterovirus 68, produced no laboratory confirmed cases in 2016.  The World Health Organization has been charting acute flaccid paralysis on a worldwide basis for some time now.  It is not a new phenomenon.  … Continue reading Why Are Public Health Officials Playing Dumb