Emmanuelle Waubant

Neurologist, UCSF

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Neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco

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Doctors are baffled by a polio-like illness that’s sickened about 20 California children in the past 18 months. At least five have been paralyzed.

A New Polio?

Doctors are baffled by a polio-like illness that’s sickened about 20 California children in the past 18 months. At least five have been paralyzed.

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