Tick paralysis.
Tick paralysis is a preventable cause of morbidity and death that, when diagnosed promptly, requires a simple low-cost intervention. The key to success is to consider tick paralysis in the differential diagnosis of ascending weakness, particularly in children, in geographic areas where this disease predominates.
Greenstein
Penny
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Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Pgreenst@caregroup.harvard.edu
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