Gillette Children’s is supporting U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar’s (D-Minn.) push for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to increase its investigation into recent cases of the rare, polio-like disorder called Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), which mostly affects children.

When her daughter Amatullah was born, Bisharo Jama knew she would arrive to a loving household stocked with everything she would need, including plenty of hand-me-downs from her siblings. At a few months old, Amatullah seemed just as chubby, beautiful and healthy as her siblings were at her age. But then she started to change in ways Bisharo never anticipated.