Polio-Like Illness May Be Responsible For Boy’s Death

By Kathy Walsh
AURORA, Colo. (CBS4)– The Department of Health in Washington State is investigating a growing cluster of polio-like illness in children. It is the same illness seen in alarming numbers in Colorado in 2014.
Two of nine suspected cases in Washington are confirmed as a rare condition known as acute flaccid myelitis or AFM. One child there has died.
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Six-year-old Daniel Ramirez died over the weekend. At this point, his is not one of the two confirmed AFM cases. AFM