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250 Million People Worldwide Estimated to Suffer From Rare Disease
March 8, 2010The Global Genes Project (www.globalgenesproject.org), a worldwide rare disease awareness initiative, today announced the success from its World Rare Disease Day 2010 efforts and laid out plans for future rare disease awareness campaigns. Across the United States, 1 in 10 Americans suffer from rare disease while statistics in the European Union and Canada mirror those from the United States. In total, over 60 million people in North America and the EU suffer from rare disease. Full release.
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