One morning last autumn, four-year-old Joey Wilcox did not feel right when he woke up. The boy had lost feeling on the left side of his face. It was the first sign of a much more serious condition. Three days later, Joey was in a hospital, unable to move his arms or legs or sit up. Tests failed to identify a cause. Doctors feared he might lose the ability to breathe. “It’s devastating,” his father, Jeremy Wilcox of Virginia, told the Associated Press. “Your healthy child can catch a cold, and then become paralyzed.” Joey survived, but still suffers some of the effects. He was one of 228 confirmed victims of acute flaccid myelitis, known as AFM, in the United States last year. AFM is a rare, mysterious and sometimes deadly paralyzing disorder. The number of cases seems to rise and then fall every other year. The condition is beginning to worry public health officials because it is striking more and more children.
Title: US Officials Worry Condition Disabling Children May Be Spreading
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sign of a much more serious condition.</span> <span data-start-time='19292' data-end-time='29167'>Three days later, Joey was in a hospital, unable to move his arms or legs or sit up.</span> <span data-start-time='29167' data-end-time='33208'>Tests failed to identify a cause.</span> <span data-start-time='33208' data-end-time='38750'>Doctors feared he might lose the ability to breathe.</span> <span data-start-time='38750' data-end-time='47813'>“It’s devastating,” his father, Jeremy Wilcox of Virginia, told the Associated Press.</span> <span data-start-time='47813' data-end-time='54438'>“Your healthy child can catch a cold, and then become paralyzed.”</span> <span data-start-time='54438' data-end-time='59896'>Joey survived, but still suffers some of the effects.</span> <span data-start-time='59896' data-end-time='73188'>He was one of 228 confirmed victims of acute flaccid myelitis, known as AFM, in the United States last year.</span> <span data-start-time='73188' data-end-time='81021'>AFM is a rare, mysterious and sometimes deadly paralyzing disorder.</span> <span data-start-time='81021' data-end-time='88000'>The number of cases seems to rise and then fall every other year.</span> <span data-start-time='88000' data-end-time='97208'>The condition is beginning to worry public health officials because it is striking more and more children.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img 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