paralytic

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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

After an outbreak of paralytic shellfish poisoning that has sickened about 20 people, the Oregon Health Authority is urging people to discard mussels harvested from a stretch of the coast since Saturday.

From Seattle Times • May 29, 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