paralytic

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Since 1903, 582 total cases — including 39 deaths — have been attributed to paralytic shellfish poisoning in California.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

Pakistan is launching a nationwide polio vaccination campaign on 28 October to vaccinate more than 45 million children under the age of five against paralytic polio.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2024

"We find paralytic shellfish toxins in our shellfish pretty much year-round at this point."

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2024

There’s all sorts of interpretations about what actually happens after the paralytic.

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2024

A celebrity among the Norfolk Prison Colony inmates was a rich, older fellow, a paralytic, called John.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey