surgery here in the next couple of days. that s a little bit scarey. it was time for us to come together to show us how much we love her and how we re going to do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn t happen to others, another little girl. reporter: part of that is to give a message to the centers for disease control about asm. if you could give the cdc a grade for how they handled it, what would you give? an f. reporter: these moms say the cdc hasn t done enough to let emergency rooms know the signs of afm, such as suddenly weakened or paralyzed legs and children are losing valuable time in getting treated. reporter: how much of you were sent home from the emergency room? all of you. you brought your paralyzed children into the emergency room
it is really heart-breaking. no parent should ever have to experience that. what makes it worse, it is not the tubes. it is not the treatments. what makes it worse is not knowing what caused it. princess snow white needs to be picked up. reporter: it is hard to know how abigail will do in the future, if she ll ever be able to walk again on her own. and notice that she still doesn t use her left arm and her right arm is weak. reach for it. thank you. we don t know a lot about the long-term prognosis right now. that s something we re still learning about. reporter: abigail s parents are grateful their child is making progress. yeah! good job! reporter: against this horrific and mysterious illness. well, abigail had made great process against asm, that s not
woke up and her arm was completely paralyzed, randomly. the night before he was us she it before. reporter: the diagnosis, asm. it is very similar to a disease from long ago, polio. like polio, asm is thought to be caused by a virus, but no one knows what virus and why it affects different children differently. oh, such a good job! get those stickers. reporter: for example, abigail s siblings were sick at the same time she was, but they were never paralyzed. the cdc reports 62 confirmed cases in 22 states. in 2014 there were 120 confirmed cases. in 2016, 149 cases. just a little bit to make it easier for you to balance, okay?
half past the top of the hour. a new warning about a rare paralyzing disease confirmed into dozen states. more on the growing success with striking similarities to polio. a mysterious illness showing up in american children. attacked the spinal cord a certain way and seems to be happening to other kids too. did in 20 states are confirmed to have a polio like disease beginning with flulike symptoms and partial paralysis in the arms and legs and hospitalization. doctors treating most cases is asm. the common cold may be among the causes but they simply do not know a lot. displayed investigation, it
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