paralytic• Before it was over, 204 so-called vaccine-associated cases occurred, about three-fourths of which were paralytic.• The men used to go paralytic and put windows in.• Shortly afterwards a seriousparalyticillness, from which he never fully recovered, forced his retirement from active public life.• Almost as if, having proclaimed himself paralytic in court, he was setting about proving it over and over again.• The vaccine brought a drastic drop-80 percent-in paralyticpolio cases by 1957.• Approximately 2 to 5 percent of children and up to 30 percent of adults with paralytic polio die.• Learning how few people actually had paralytic polio offered no comfort to me.• Difficultyswallowing from the pain and paralyticweakness.