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Atlanta, GA, USA: Unidentified illness acquired in 2010 disintegrates a young man's lungs

Emily

Emily

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http://www.ajc.com/lifestyle/mystery-illness-meets-its-1370958.html
Mystery illness meets its match

By Helena Oliviero

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Sid Vahal returned from his honeymoon aboard a cruise ship to Mexico in December 2010 with a sore throat.

Within months, he developed symptoms that baffled Atlanta?s leading respiratory specialists: both his lungs were slowly ? irreversibly ? disintegrating.

He was only 27. Sid, who lives in Cumming, was fit and in otherwise good health. But by June 2011 he was so weak and his condition so precarious that he was placed on a ventilator in intensive care....
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He ended up getting a double lung transplant.
 
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