[citation needed] A link to Campylobacter jejuni was suspected when a young girl was admitted to Second Teaching Hospital.
[2] The syndrome typically presents as a progressive flaccid symmetric paralysis with areflexia, often causing respiratory failure.
[citation needed] The majority of patients have complete symptom resolution with 5-day intravenous immunoglobulin (IV Ig) treatment.
[5] In 1991, Guy Mckhann, Jack Griffin, Dave Cornblath and Tony Ho from Johns Hopkins University and Arthur Asbury from University of Pennsylvania visited China to study a mysterious epidemic of paralytic syndrome occurring in northern China.
Electrophysiological testing of these children showed motor axonal loss with occasional conduction block with a lack of demyelinating features and normal sensory potentials.