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The agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said in a filing posted on its website that it had received reports that autonomous taxis operated by G.M.’s Cruise division had become immobilized on roadways, creating obstacles for other vehicles.

As part of a public campaign to encourage vaccination, Bassett and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky sent letters in English, Spanish, Haitian-Creole and Yiddish last month to residents in Rockland, Orange, and Sullivan counties, warning that paralysis from polio is typically permanent and that 5 to 10 percent of those paralyzed die when their breathing muscles become immobilized.

Zebras get a “huge adrenaline rush” when they’re hit with the dart of a tranquilizer, and it can take as long as 15 minutes for them to become immobilized, according to Vanessa Roer, chief executive of Roer’s Zoofari, a private zoo in Reston, Va.

While a winter blast this week could stun the iguanas - the cold-blooded reptiles become immobilized when temperatures go much below the mid 40s - it’s unlikely the chill will be enough to kill them.

We become immobilized, and we don’t know why.