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

You cannot selectively numb.

c Until 1997 referred to as other chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases.

The left side is paralyzed and the right side partly.

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

And the next thing is paralysis.

Immunization against children's paralyses

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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.

The problem is and I learned this from the research that you cannot selectively numb emotion.

Overdoses of cocaine can lead to convulsive fits, heart paralysis or high fever.

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

We harden our hearts and grow callous.

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.

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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.

How do you unlearn the learned paralysis, so you can relieve him of this excruciating, clenching spasm of the phantom arm?

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.