paralytic

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Early symptoms of paralytic shellfish poisoning include tingling of the lips and tongue that could start anywhere from a few minutes to hours after eating toxic shellfish.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2025

No associated paralytic cases have been recorded so far.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 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

They told us that a blod clot had formed on my mother’s brain and that another paralytic stroke had set in.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright