I have Guillain-Barre syndrome. To think of the hundreds or thousands of people that may be affected with this disease is mind boggling. Complete paralysis then years of therapy to be able to function again.

But ADEM... There's no cure for this.

Scary indeed.

I can't tell you how terrifying this news is to me personally. I have 15 yr old twins and am still recovering. It has an enormous impact on family and friends. I can't imagine having GBS go from being a rare syndrome to mainstream. Terrifying

My brother-in-law had it in 1995. He was 26, healthy as an ox, never sick. Then he got GBS. He was in the hospital for six weeks. Of course, he got very sick very fast and never got on the other side of it. As you know, the sooner you have to go on a ventilator the worse the outcome. Usually, for someone that young and healthy the mortality rate is <3%. He was just so damn unlucky.

I can't remember his name, as I don't follow football, but I know there was a Denver Bronco who had GBS, was very sick, but eventually went back to playing football. This was a long time ago, maybe 1991 or '92? He felt his recovery was near-complete. Healing thoughts your way, katsy.

if the repukes get bitten by a Zika mosquito.

Children got it, got over it, and were immune. I suppose the ones who got very ill with it were misdiagnosed with something more serious, like encephalitis. It's either that or the damned thing has mutated into a far more virulent form.

Eventually we'll have a vaccine. The next few years will be horrible in high density mosquito areas.

much more severe?

and there are other diseases that follow that pattern, like mumps and chicken pox. Both are much worse in adults.