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Genetic Disease is Ravaging Lancaster County’s Amish, and Helping to Change Medicine for All of Us

Strasburg, Pennsylvania – Soon after birth, Daniel and Rebecca Stoltzfus’s first child fell ill.

Fearing pneumonia, her parents rushed her to a hospital where she later died.

Testing revealed Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID), a rare genetic disease, as the cause of death.

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