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in particular, spreads to cells
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that are involved in the neuro muscular junction
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and can affect then muscle activity
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or your ability to move voluntary muscles.
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So, polio--the disease caused
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by polio can be a paralytic disease, crippling,
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and in some cases can lead to death
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if the disease progresses in certain ways.
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If we looked in 1950,
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this is the incidence of paralytic,
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or the worst form of poliomyelitis in the U.S.
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was about 20 per 100,000 people.