It can damage the central nervous system causing paralysis and even death.

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Another example of the deep impacts that scientists have made in medicine is with nervous system injuries (paralysis, blindness, deafness, etc).

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The Mail believes the US postal system is facing "paralysis" as fears over the disease spread.

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Prior to the 2000--01 recession and Sept. 11 our civil aviation system was speeding toward paralysis.

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Polio (also called poliomyelitis) is highly infectious and affects the nervous system, sometimes resulting in paralysis.

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And it would also mean paralysis of the system because it would take a few years to put it in place and the railway network would simply get worse rather than better.

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Takeshita Noboru is hospitalized for treatment of spondylitis deformans, a spinal deformation caused by aging which puts pressure on the nervous system and causes back pain and paralysis in the limbs.

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We could be back in the territory of paralysis of the European financial system.

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ALS, a disease of the nervous system, impairs muscle movement and eventually results in total paralysis.

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Guillain Barre syndrome is a disease of the nervous system which causes numbness and weakness and a degree of paralysis.

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This paralysis exists because it suits the trio of political, bureaucratic and union interests to keep the system the way it is.

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