"I woke up one morning and my legs just didn't feel quite right," Shane Sumlin said, a Shreveport father who spent three ...

I was paralyzed from the head down. Even my face was paralyzed,” recalled 31-year-old Luke Pickering of England ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - In 2011, Shane Sumlin's life changed overnight after being diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). It causes the body to attack its ...

have nursed back an eight-year-old boy suffering from the disease. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the cause of GBS is not fully understood but it is linked to poor food ...

“At that time GBS was not suspected,” he said ... “The corporation was going to construct a filtration plant at the dam with the zilla parishad,” he said. “Funds did not work out.” ...