paralytic
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Vaccine-derived strains can arise in places where vaccination rates are low and the weakened vaccine virus can keep spreading person to person and revert to its paralytic form.
From Science Magazine
But patients’ bodies try to shiver, which raises the temperature, so they must be sedated or given paralytic agents.
From New York Times
They point to a case of paralytic polio reported last year in New York, and to recent measles surges in Minnesota and Ohio.
From Seattle Times
Oklahoma uses a three-drug lethal injection method starting with the sedative midazolam, rendering the person unconscious, followed by a paralytic vecuronium bromide and finally potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
From Seattle Times
The company warns that certain batches may contain bacteria that cause botulism, a fatal paralytic disease.
From Seattle Times
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