Notice ow there are new medications being advertised on tv for illnesses that you probably never heard of? RSV..."a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms' - that you never heard of a few years ago. My personal favorite? "Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a chronic autoimmune disorder in which antibodies destroy the communication between nerves and muscle, resulting in weakness of the skeletal muscles." Guess what this sounds like? AFM - acute flaccid myelitis. When my dad got MG he had just finished a long run of vaccine injections that I had warned him about. Then, he showed up at my place with his face sagging, slurring his speech. At the time, only one in 50,000 were ever diagnosed with MG. Now, they are advertising treatment for it on tv...which they surely wouldn't do if it were still so rare. Oh, and AFM? That is a "mystery" illness that only affects American children, only when they are entering kindergarten or first grade. So, I asked my pediatrician why them, why then? He laughed and said, "Oh yeah...We're trying to get them caught up on their vaccines for school." However, that illness that paralyzes and kills little kids is still a "mystery".

Oh, and my dad's doctor couldn't figure out what was wrong when he laid in ICU completely paralyzed, on a feeding tube. So, I told him that my dad's antibodies were probably too high and attacking his muscular neurons....MG. Saved his life and gave him five more years.

But, don't you worry. These mystery illnesses will pop up more and more and they'll never be able to figure out why. But, they might have a drug for it.