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
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
His face lost all appearance of life and set itself into an expressionless mask, with the eyeballs fixed, paralytic, and staring.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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