Fatal Bulbospinal Paralytic Poliomyelitis Due to ECHO 11 Virus

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Abstract
There is some awareness of the possibility of clinical paralytic poliomyelitis of various grades of severity being caused by enteroviruses other than poliomyelitis, i. e., members of theCoxsackie AandBfamilies, and theECHOviruses. Knowledge of these enteroviruses is relatively recent, and it may be some time before their entire clinical-pathological spectrum is delineated. In the mean time, it would seem important to record any documented instance of clinical paralytic poliomyelitis due to a virus other than one of the three serotypes of poliovirus, especially when the associated presence of poliovirus can be excluded. Report of a Case A 2-year-old female infant entered hospital on May 25, 1959, after acute onset of sore throat, restlessness, and crying out in her sleep the previous day. On the morning of admission, flaccid weakness of both lower extremities appeared and began to progress rapidly to involve both hips and the

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