Association of enterovirus D68 with Acute flaccid myelitis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 2009-2018.

The authors correlated increases of Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM) with EV-D68 outbreaks. They noted that EV-D68 infected mice exhibited paralyzed limbs, and they reported that EV-D68 had undergone genome evolutiion that enabled viral neurotropism. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Uprety, Curtis, Elkan...Graf.) Digital facsimile from cdc.gov at this link.

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)