1.   She thought it might be Guillain-Barre syndrome, a form of progressive paralysis, or botulism, the deadly food toxin.

2.   The disease attacks nerves in the spinal cord and brain that control muscle movement, causing progressive paralysis and leading to death.

3.   Then the progressive paralysis stops, and the nerves and muscles slowly begin repairing themselves.

4.   When immune cells do somehow trespass into the brain and attack normal brain proteins, for example, the result can be the progressive paralysis of multiple sclerosis.

5.   Doctors there confirmed he had the fatal disease, which attacks nerves in the spinal cord and brain and causes progressive paralysis.

6.   In this illness, nerve cells that control movement deteriorate and cause progressive paralysis.

7.   Mendoza had suffered from a progressive paralysis of the lungs.

8.   She had suffered from a progressive paralysis of the lungs and died Monday.

9.   That causes progressive paralysis, and finally death.

10.   She suffered from multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease that causes progressive paralysis.