Girl, 21, describes agony of rare polio-like illness which left her quadriplegic - amid fresh outbreak of the mysterious disease

Gabrielle deFiebre was in the mall to buy hiking boots with her grandmother in 2009 when she felt a pain surge from her neck down her arms.


An active final-year college student, she thought it was strange but assumed nothing of it. She carried on walking, sporadically stretching and bending in a bid to ease her muscles.