Recently, thiamine deficiency has been identified as the cause of a paralytic disease affecting wild birds in the Baltic Sea area dating back to 1982.

Then, in the blow that killed the campaign for good, a rare side effect - a paralytic disease known as Guillain-Barre syndrome - appeared unexpectedly.

In the early 1930s, thousands of horses in California suffered and died from a paralytic disease, later called western equine encephalitis.

In cases of paralytic disease, muscle pain and spasms are frequently observed prior to onset of weakness and paralysis.

The virus has also been linked to a rare serious paralytic disease, tropical spastic paraparesis.

Today the world continues to struggle with a paralytic disease it should have vanquished.

He was crippled by a paralytic disease from early childhood.

Campylobacter, which is the leading bacterial cause of food-borne illness in the country, has also been linked to a rare but serious paralytic disease.

Other destructive changes associated with paralytic disease occur in the forebrain region, specifically the hypothalamus and thalamus.

The molecular mechanisms by which poliovirus causes paralytic disease are poorly understood.