So when we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

The left side is paralyzed and the right side partly.

Polio 59.3 67.4

And in that paralysis, of course, our capacity for compassion is also paralyzed.

And the next thing is paralysis.

Immunization against children's paralyses

Poliomyelitis (three doses) 95.0

What a misfortune to be paralyzed.

You can't numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects, our emotions.

The muscles were frozen, paralyzed dystonic is how we refer to that.

Now, why would a phantom limb be paralyzed?

Poliomyelitis has been eradicated completely.

(d) Polio in Kasaï Oriental

It doesn't matter if you're paralyzed.

It's just a reality of anesthesia. The lungs can be paralyzed.

You cannot selectively numb.

Poliomyelitis has been liquidated altogether.

When I was five I had polio.

Polio has been certified as having been eliminated across the Americas, 83 other countries have reported zero polio incidence during the last three years and the global goal of eradication by 2000 is achievable, although certification may only be feasible after that date

Now, why do you get a paralyzed phantom limb?

It was a paralyzed phantom arm.

In other words, your father is nearly helpless

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

And one of the ways we deal with it is we numb vulnerability.

His nerves are all shot.

It lulls the mind into indifference.

A joint polio and measles appeal brought capacity and results.

Pakistan s Winnable War on Polio

(a) Investigations on the Ebola virus and polio

But soon we may see polio eradicated.

I was just in India working on the polio program.

And polio, I think, is one of the most powerful examples.

You see, the scale of the suffering numbs us into a kind of indifference.

An increased prevalence of diseases such as cholera, yellow fever, meningitis, measles and poliomyelitis has been reported.

But when we were looking at the case sheets, what we found was, these people with the paralyzed phantom limbs, the original arm was paralyzed because of the peripheral nerve injury.

Or polio? How many of you remember the iron lung?

This was the result of a polio outbreak that originated in northern Nigeria during a year long suspension of polio vaccinations and spread across West and Central Africa and threatened the Horn of Africa.

The phantom limb they'll say, But doctor, the phantom limb is paralyzed.

Blindness, polio early detection, early response.

We've seen a 99 percent reduction in polio in 20 years.

We may see the eradication of polio this year.

The G8 nations have been incredibly generous on polio over the last 20 years, but we're starting to have something called polio fatigue and that is that the donor nations aren't willing to fund polio any longer.

So if you look back to 1988, there are about 350,000 cases of polio on the planet that year.

Delegations also expressed concern about the resurgence of polio.

Extension of cooperation with Rotary International for polio eradication and extension of the Vaccine Independence Initiative