Later, when her parents came to visit, they shared with her the news of his death from bulbar polio. He was 15. “As a 5-year-old that really scared me,” Mom says. “I thought I was going to ...

To the editor: I am a survivor of bulbar (throat) polio; I contracted it when I was 5 years old in 1946. While I was fortunate to survive and not be placed in an iron lung, I was left unable to ...

19 These investigators noted diastolic hypertension in 72.9 per cent of patients with bulbar poliomyelitis. Elevated blood pressure was found in only 7 per cent of the spinal forms and 12 per cent ...

The three major types of polio include spinal polio, a paralytic polio that attacks nerve cells in the spinal cord; bulbar polio, in which the virus attacks motor neurons in the brainstem ...

It is clear that Pyromen is no cure for polio. Among victims of bulbar polio treated with Pyromen, there were as many deaths (seven) as there were among the others. Also, polio is so unpredictable ...

A second type, bulbar poliomyelitis, infects the medulla oblongata and may result in dysfunction of the swallowing mechanism along with respiratory and circulatory distress. Minor forms of ...

At a tender age of four, the natural scientist contracted spino-bulbar polio. It was in 1955. Spino-bulbar polio destroys neurons in the brainstem, causing respiratory or cardiac failure.

Progressive Bulbar Palsy, Mary Lateral Sclerosis, Progressive Muscular Atrophy, Spinal Macular Atrophy Kennedy's disease, and Post-polio Syndrome," said Dr Wendo. Messages or signals from nerve ...