Maintaining Vigilance for Acute Flaccid Myelitis Cases
From January 1 through October 23, 2018, federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received 155 reports of suspected cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) in persons from 22 U.S. states; 62 met the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) case definition for a confirmed case of AFM. Among the 62 confirmed cases reported through October 23, 2018, the median age was 4.1 years (range: 0.7 - 32.7 years) and 53% of the cases were male.
Maine has not identified any AFM cases to date in 2018, but had one case each in 2014, 2015, and 2016.