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 ...

Helps Polio Victims The electrophrenic respirator, which looks like a small horn radio, is designed to aid patients suffering from bulbar poliomyelitis. In this type of the disease, the phrenic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...