A rare polio-like illness is striking children across multiple states and there are now 38 confirmed cases of acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM. The Centers for Disease Control is investigating the spike ...

MOORPARK, Calif. (KABC) -- A 2-year old boy in Moorpark has become the latest child to be diagnosed with a mysterious virus that public health officials are now calling "California polio-like syndrome ...

Erin Olivera didn't know where to turn. It was 2012, and her 1-year-old son, Lucian, had suddenly become paralyzed from the waist down. While he was receiving excellent medical care from his doctors ...

Erin Olivera waited weeks for doctors to tell her why her youngest son was paralyzed. Ten-month-old Lucian had started crawling oddly — his left leg dragging behind his right — and soon was unable to ...

Doctors are stumped as to why there's been a recent increase in the number of those afflicted. The California Department of Public Health knows of at least 20 cases statewide; six of them are in ...