the Zika virus<\/a> a median of six days before they showed neurological symptoms. Most appeared to have a variant of the syndrome known as acute motor axonal neuropathy, or AMAN, which is characterized by paralysis and loss of reflexes. The median age of the patients was 42 years. Nearly all of the 31 men and 11 women were born in French Polynesia.<\/p>\nThe researchers speculated that past infection with the dengue virus might have made the group more vulnerable to the syndrome, but they did not find evidence of this.<\/p>\n
The study did contain some positive news. The patients’ outcomes were “generally favorable,” the researchers wrote, and they had a “faster recovery than usually observed in typical Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome.”<\/p>\n
Those outcomes are in sharp contrast to what health officials are reporting on the ground in Latin America.<\/p>\n
Turbo, Colombia, has reported a recent outbreak of Guillain-Barr\u00e9 that totaled five cases, all of them severe. According to Washington Post correspondent Nick Miroff, who visited the city, “Three patients have died. One is fighting for his life in an intensive care unit. The fifth, a 10-year-old girl, hasn’t been able to move her legs in a week.”<\/p>\n
In total, Colombia has reported 97 cases of Guillain-Barr\u00e9.<\/p>\n
In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed three cases, one in Puerto Rico, of Guillain-Barr\u00e9 related to Zika. Last weekend, Honduras reported that a 29-year-old pregnant woman with Zika symptoms had been diagnosed with Guillain-Barr\u00e9, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n
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