article_snippet: A virus that starts off like the common cold could be responsible for leaving more than 100 children with paralysis.
article_snippet: While some of the children showed only minor symptoms of the virus - such as runny nose, sneezing and coughing - others suffered weakness of the limbs to complete paralysis .
article_snippet: A new study published on Monday has strengthened the connection between enterovirus D68 and the sudden paralysis of more than 100 children in the last year .
article_snippet: Lancet Infectious Diseases backed those initial opinions, after following the progress of 25 children in California and Colorado who experienced paralysis.
article_snippet: It has caused severe illness in a number of children and has even been implicated in some deaths.
article_snippet: This is a virus that causes the common cold,' Chiu told NBC News. '
article_snippet: Parents don't bring Parents kids in until Parents are really sick.
article_snippet: By that time, typically, the viral levels may be very, very low or undetectable.'
article_snippet: Parents looked for other viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites that also could have caused the symptoms but none were present.
article_snippet: Researchers were also not able to answer another mystery of the enterovirus - why some children only came down with minor symptoms and others lasting paralysis.
article_snippet: Included in the study were two siblings that both came down with an 100 per cent genetically-identical strain of the virus in the past year.
article_snippet: One of two siblings that both came down with an 100 per cent genetically-identical strain of the virus in the past year experienced  paralysis while the other only suffered upper respiratory symptoms.
highlights_snippet: Researchers now believe mutated strain of enterovirus D-68 caused more than 100 children to suffer sudden paralysis in the last year .
  