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Rare Diseases
May 27, 2010 by ru30
I have decided to take a break from writing about a single rare disease so I am going to talk about rare diseases in general.
There are so many rare diseases out there new ones are being discovered all the time, right now scientist estimate that there are 5,ooo and 8,000 known rare diseases in the world. Did you know 1 in every 10 Americans has a rare disease, so rare diseases aren’t that rare.
The definition of a rare diseases is that less 5 per 10,000 individuals in a single country have it, so about 150,ooo people in the United States have it. You may think that’s a lot of people but its not because there are over 300,000,000 people in the United States.
It is usually hard to diagnose a rare disease, so many people never know they have on until it’s to late. So if you think you might have one the go to this website and you can read about many rare diseases.
http://rarediseases.about.com/od/typesofdiseases/u/Rare_Diseases_Listing_A_to_Z.htm
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on May 28th, 2010 at 11:17 am
Thats really cool! But sad at the same time. Can you tell right away if you have a rare disease, like since you were a baby, or can it come up at any time?
Cool post,
Ali
on May 28th, 2010 at 11:20 am
it matters what disease it is some come up when you are a baby but other don’t.
on July 1st, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Hey Raili!
Cool post! I do not have a rare disease. But cool post and I encourage others to comment! I have seen raili’s cluster map, you are out there !
Pip