That weakness, technically called " acute flaccid paralysis, " is usually a sign of a disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome, which occurs about 3, 500 times a year in North America.
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Other medications are piperazine, which causes flaccid paralysis in the adult pinworms, and pyrvinium pamoate ( also called pyrvinium embonate ), which works by inhibiting oxygen uptake of the adult pinworms.
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The first confirmed human death due to tick venoming in Australia was reported by Cleland in 1912 when a large engorged tick caused flaccid paralysis in a child, progressing to asphyxiation.
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The advantage of flaccid paralysis is the subject is rendered incapacitated instantaneously preventing involuntary muscle contraction that may pull the trigger or cause other movements that may injure or kill the hostage.
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About one to five in 1000 cases progress to paralytic disease, in which the muscles become weak, floppy and poorly controlled, and, finally, completely paralyzed; this condition is known as acute flaccid paralysis.
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There are two case reports in the literature of EV-D68 causing neurologic illness ( acute flaccid paralysis and encephalomyelitis ) as evidenced by detection of EV-D68 in the CSF ( 3, 4 ).
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The major toxic components in cobra venoms are postsynaptic neurotoxins, which block the nerve transmission by binding specifically to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, leading to flaccid paralysis and even death by respiratory failure.
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This results in initial violent contractions, followed by sustained supercontraction restricted to the subjunctional endplate sarcoplasm and prolonged depolarizing neuromuscular blockade, the latter resulting in flaccid paralysis of all the muscles in the body.
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Envenomation causes local pain, severe swelling, bruising, blistering, necrosis and variable non-specific effects which may include headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, dizziness, collapse or convulsions along with possible moderate to severe flaccid paralysis.
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Infection can result in a wide variety of symptoms ranging from mild respiratory illness ( common cold ), hand, foot and mouth disease, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, aseptic meningitis, myocarditis, severe neonatal sepsis-like disease, and acute flaccid paralysis.
