Researchers: Virus likely caused 2018 cases of acute flaccid myelitis

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say a virus appears to be the cause of the polio-like illness that affected several local children last fall.

It caused paralyzing symptoms in some children, including a few from Pennsylvania.

The researchers said they found the virus in the spinal fluid of one of six Minnesota children who suffered from acute flaccid myelitis.