Child's autopsy from 2008 becomes a clue to mystifying polio-like illness - STAT

When a 5-year-old New Hampshire boy died in 2008, his family permitted an autopsy, to help solve “the mystery around the child’s death and illness.” That decision has yielded fruit.

Within days, the boy went from having cold symptoms to being unable to walk. To Peter Wright, a pediatric infectious diseases physician at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, it looked similar to pol… [+5406 chars]

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