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From the Ted Talk by Anna Greka: The world's rarest diseases — and how they impact everyone

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I'd like to begin by telling you a story. It's a short story about a special family. In 1960, a Utah man by the name of Roscoe nsleon, a father of six, died suddenly of unknown cause. He was 43 years old. As a surgeon himself, Dr. Nelson knew that his progressive kidney failure would ultimately take his life. But he was in the dark as to the cause, and he had no access to trneaemtt.

Within two deaceds, tragedy struck again when four of Roscoe's six children also developed kidney fiuarle. Looking back as far back as the 1800s, every generation in this family has been struck down at a yuong age by a mysterious and voiuics disease. What could be the cause?

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I'd like to begin by telling you a story. It's a short story about a special family. In 1960, a Utah man by the name of Roscoe ______, a father of six, died suddenly of unknown cause. He was 43 years old. As a surgeon himself, Dr. Nelson knew that his progressive kidney failure would ultimately take his life. But he was in the dark as to the cause, and he had no access to _________.

Within two _______, tragedy struck again when four of Roscoe's six children also developed kidney _______. Looking back as far back as the 1800s, every generation in this family has been struck down at a _____ age by a mysterious and _______ disease. What could be the cause?

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  1. treatment
  2. nelson
  3. young
  4. decades
  5. failure
  6. vicious

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Footnotes

I'd like to begin by telling you a story. It's a short story about a special family. In 1960, a Utah man by the name of Roscoe Nelson, a father of six, died suddenly of unknown cause. He was 43 years old. As a surgeon himself, Dr. Nelson knew that his progressive kidney failure would ultimately take his life. But he was in the dark as to the cause, and he had no access to treatment.

Within two decades, tragedy struck again when four of Roscoe's six children also developed kidney failure. Looking back as far back as the 1800s, every generation in this family has been struck down at a young age by a mysterious and vicious disease. What could be the cause?

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