Clinicians & Health Departments
For Clinicians: Promptly recognize AFM symptoms, hospitalize the patient, collect specimens, and contact your health department immediately.
Specimen Collection Instructions
Instructions for Clinicians and Health Departments
Free Course
AFM Microlearning Sessions on AAP’s PediaLink, available through July 2023
2020 Vital Signs Report
Clinician Resources
- Examining Proximal Muscle Weakness in Children [1 page]
- How to Report Patients Under Investigation for AFM
- Patient Summary Form: Word| PDF
- AFM Physician Consult and Support Portal
- Emerging Infectious Diseases Podcast: Enterovirus D-68 and Acute Flaccid Myelitis, 2020
- 2020 Public Health Grand Rounds: Acute Flaccid Myelitis
- AFM Vital Signs, August 2020
- AFM Vital Signs, July 2019
- 5 Things to Know About Acute Flaccid Myelitis, Medscape, October 15, 2019
AFM Slide Set
Contact Information
- If you are a clinician or from a health department and have a non-urgent question about AFM, email the AFM team at AFMInfo@cdc.gov.
- For urgent questions about AFM, please call the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) at 770-488-7100.
- Need a consult on a possible AFM case? Go to AFM Physician Consult and Support Portal.
FAQs and Additional Resources
- Frequently Asked Questions by Clinicians and Health Departments
- References
- For additional resources for patients and parents, see For Parents: Helping Children Who Have AFM.
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