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Breakthrough? New treatment of Lupus offers hope for patients

The saying: “Lightning does not strike the same place twice” does not apply to 23-year-old Michelle Irara. She was recovering from surgery to remove swelling from her spinal cord that left her paralysed when she started getting strange symptoms. “I was always nauseous, my skin was flaking, and no doctor could explain why I was sickly,” she says.

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