Enterovirus 68 -- United Kingdom
We report a cluster of atypical Guillain-Barre syndrome in 10 adults temporally related to a cluster of 4 children with acute flaccid paralysis, over a 3-month period in South Wales, United Kingdom. All adult cases were male, aged between 24 and 77 years. 7 had prominent facial diplegia at onset. Available electrophysiological studies showed axonal involvement in 5 adults. 7 reported various forms of respiratory disease before onset of neurological symptoms. The ages of children ranged from 1
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