NIH awards contract for acute flaccid myelitis natural history study

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) approximately $10 million over five years to study acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), a rare but serious condition which causes muscle weakness and paralysis.