Paralysis

Postcard advertising Jack Kevorkian's exhibit at the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown, Mass., September 19 through October 24, 1999. On front of the postcard is a reproduction of Kevorkian's painting "Paralysis"

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Verso of a postcard advertising Jack Kevorkian's exhibit at the Armenian Library and Museum of America in Watertown, Mass., September 19 through October 24, 1999. On front of the postcard is a reproduction of Kevorkian's painting "Paralysis."

Paralysis

Color photograph of painting by Jack Kevorkian "Paralysis" (oil, between 1963 and 1966) Painting was stolen from Kevorkian's storage in Long Beach, CA in circa 1989.

Myelitis of the anterior horns, or spinal paralysis of the adult and child,

Mode of access: Internet.

Lectures on the diagnosis and treatment of the principal forms of paralysis of the lower extremities /

Mode of access: Internet.

Tick paralysis of dogs in Victoria due to Ixodes cornuatus

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Tick paralysis in a cat with sub-clinical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

A three-year-old male neutered British Shorthair cat was treated for tick paralysis caused by L holocyclus. Ten days after discharge, the cat represented with left-sided congestive heart failure and was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, characterised by diastolic dysfunction. It has been proposed that tick toxicity is associated with diastolic dysfunction and it is possible that residual toxin effects were a contributing factor to the development of left-sided congestive heart failure in this case.

Polioviruses and other enteroviruses isolated from faecal samples of patients with acute flaccid paralysis in Australia, 1996-2004

Background: Acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is the most common clinical presentation of acute poliovirus infection, occurring in 0.1-1% of infected cases. AFP surveillance has been used world-wide to monitor the control and eradication of circulating wild poliovirus. This study aims to review the significance of all enteroviruses, including polioviruses, isolated from patients with AFP in Australia between 1996 and 2004. Methods: We undertook a retrospective review of all notified cases of AFP, aged 0-15 years and resident in Australia at the time of notification. We reviewed all available clinical and virological data for these cases and all records of the Polio Expert Committee, which determined the final classification for all cases. Results: There were 335 notified cases that satisfied the case definition for AFP, 162 (48%) of whom had at least one faecal sample tested. Enteroviruses isolated from the faeces of 26 (16%) of the 162 cases were Coxsackie A24, Coxsackie B5, enterovirus 71, enterovirus 75, echovirus 9, echovirus 11 and echovirus 18. In addition, one or more polioviruses were isolated from the faeces of seven patients. Six of seven polioviruses were characterised as Sabin-like, one was not characterised, but all were considered to be incidental isolates. Five of these cases were classified as infant botulism, one case as transverse myelitis and one as a focal mononeuropathy. Conclusion: With the eradication of circulating wild polioviruses, other enteroviruses are being more commonly identified as the cause of polio-like illnesses. In the polio end game, when there is increased testing for polioviruses, it is important to consider infant botulism as a differential diagnosis in cases presenting with AFP.

A paralysis in public health policy: water fluoridation in Queensland (1996-2006)

By focusing on developments between 1996 and 2006, this paper explains the reasons for one of Australia’s public health inconsistencies, the comparatively low adoption of adjusted water fluoridation in Queensland. As such, this work involved literature review and traditional historical method. In Queensland, parliamentary support for water fluoridation is conditional on community approval. Political ambivalence and the constraints of the “Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies Act (1963)” Qld have hindered the advocacy of water fluoridation. The political circumstance surrounding the “Lord Mayor’s Taskforce on Fluoridation Report” (1997) influenced its findings and confirms that Australia’s biggest local authority, the Brisbane City Council, failed to authoritatively analyse water fluoridation. In 2004, a private member’s bill to mandate fluoridation failed in a spectacular fashion. In 2005, an official systems review of Queensland Health recommended public debate about water fluoridation. Our principal conclusion is that without mandatory legislation, widespread implementationof water fluoridation in Queensland is most unlikely.