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paralysis
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was a 45-year-old female, admitted with respiratory distress from a severe case of Guillain Barre with ascending paralysis progressing to the level of her respiratory muscles, requiring immediate intubation.
An outbreak of rabies in Trinidad without history of bites and with symptoms of acute ascending paralysis.
Three weeks later he presented with rapid ascending paralysis and neuromuscular respiratory failure leading to intubation.
 
 
 
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