A spike in the number of cases of a mysterious polio-like illness has led to a new alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As of August, at least 50 people in 24 states were confirmed to have acute flaccid myelitis, a viral infection that attacks the body’s nervous system and has led to paralysis and death. The federal agency posted an update earlier this week…
There have been a total of 11 confirmed and two suspected cases of AFM in Texas to date, and five have been in Collin, Dallas, Denton and Tarrant counties, according to DSHS. The first case was reported in March, followed by two in May, four in June, three in July and one in August…
Infection with AFM leads to the sudden onset of limb weakness and loss of muscle tone and reflexes. Other symptoms include drooping eyelids, facial weakness and slurred speech. Despite testing, health officials do not know what’s causing the uptick.
As with all of these cases, this could find a new mutation at any moment, and begin to explode.
It does seem as if this is part of the r-plan. You’re an r-strategist in Mexico. All your life you have reduced disgust, and you are banging everything. All along the way you are picking up diseases, while eating disgusting foods, sleeping with disgusting women, and doing disgusting things. Then times turn K and you head to where the resources are and flee the K-strategists who are beginning to kill people in your native land.
With you comes a whole suite of diseases that you carry, to which you are immune, but to which your new hosts are immunologically naive. Not only do you land in a paradise of free resources that can support the present population, but all of a sudden, right after you arrive, everyone there begins dropping like flies from all sorts of diseases.
Suddenly there you are, an r-strategist in an unpopulated land of free resource availability.
