Johns Hopkins co-leads research effort on child 'poliolike' condition

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Johns Hopkins Medicine and University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers will lead a multicenter, multinational study of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), the 'poliolike' condition affecting children that causes loss of muscle control. The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases awarded an approximate $10 million contract to UAB that will fund at least 38 research sites across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom...