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Rutstein said the risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome paralysis from the inoculation was small when weighed against the damage that a full-scale epidemic might have caused...
While a student, he was stricken with a paralytic disease (doctors diagnosed it as poliomyelitis but Good thinks it was Guillain-Barré syndrome, which generally produces a less permanent form of paralysis); whatever it was, it left him partially paralyzed. Dropped from the class roster by professors who felt he would be unable to keep up his grades, he was restored only after he promised to withdraw voluntarily if his grades dropped below A. They never did. Through exercise, Good rehabilitated himself to the point where he has only
Last week, brought back from the brink of the grave by the teamwork of 15 doctors and countless corpsmen, Kirn navigated his first unaided steps down a Bethesda corridor. Most Guillain-Barré victims, if they survive the first critical weeks, regain full use of their muscles. But not many have such a long and arduous way to come back as Bullet Lou Kirn. It had taken him three months even to wiggle his fingers and toes. Now, on a Spartan daily schedule which includes "walks" in the swimming pool, typing to exercise his fingers, pulling on a block...
...Named for French Neurologists Georges Guillain and Jean Barré, and called "syndrome" because it is a set of symptoms, not a specific disease. Other names: Landry's paralysis, infectious (or postinfectious) polyneuritis, acute idiopathic polyneuritis, and even encephalo-myeloradiculoneuritis...
What kind of a fight would it be? If there was no solution at Geneva, Navarre predicted there would be "internationalization of the war"-meaning allied intervention. And for France? Henceforth from Dienbienphu, the old ways of war could no longer suffice. Robert Guillain, Le Monde's able correspondent, cabled a bitter valedictory from Hanoi...