![]() ![]() ![]() Her book, The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care, explores how polio in Denmark forced medical professionals to rethink critical care. Wunsch is a critical-care physician and researcher at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. ![]() "If you were really unlucky, a weakness of the muscles of respiration, and if you were truly unlucky, the muscles that control things like swallowing, which was called bulbar polio." Hannah Wunsch told The Current host Matt Galloway. "For the unlucky few, and it was usually less than about five per cent of those who got the disease, they would develop paralysis - the virus would actually go to the nerves of the spinal cord and cause weakness of limbs," Dr. The Autumn Ghost is a book by Hannah Wunsch. ![]()
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