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Cystic Fibrosis

Cystic Fibrosis is the largest fatal genetic disease in the country, and North America today. Its victims only have an average lifespan of up to 31 years. It is an inherited disease in which one allele causes mucus in organs like the lungs, intestines, kidneys, stomach, and others, to become thick and sticky making the organ not function properly. Cystic Fibrosis is usually present the worst in the respiratory system, and the digestive tract. CF can only be obtained by this single defective gene on the number 7 chromosome. Symptoms of this disease are able to be caught pretty early, starting with frequent airway infections, constant coughing, wheezing, abnormal metabolism(excessive amounts of food, with no weight gain), smelly and large feces, and pneumonia. A high level of salt in perspiration is an easy way to tell if a person has this disease. Every new born child now has a 1 in 3,300 chance of getting this disease, with 1 out of every 29 people are carriers.......

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