Rare and interesting diseases

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Just now, tennisluvr said:

Yo we are lucky, very lucky that way

Yeah..

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Just remembered the disease I was talking about.

Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is an extremely rare autosomal dominant inherited prion disease of the brain. It is almost always caused by a mutation to the protein PrP^C, but can also develop spontaneously in patients with a non-inherited mutation variant called sporadic fatal insomnia (sFI). FFI has no known cure and involves progressively worsening insomnia, which leads to hallucinations, delirium, confusional states like that of dementia, and eventually, death.^[1]The average survival time for patients diagnosed with FFI after the onset of symptoms is 18 months.^[1]

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