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Posted 30 January 2012 - 10:54 AM

Little-known disease pushes life to the edge

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Karen Erickson of Thousand Oaks lifts weights in her garage. Erickson was given two years to live 11 years ago. Now she is waiting for a double lung transplant and trying to get people to understand a disease called alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, which has reduced her lungs to less than 20 percent of capacity.

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