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| Cause of Illness Killing Dentists & Dental Workers Remains a Mystery
Could this be a candidate for DISEASE X? via Tech Times The U.S Centers for Disease Control Prevention on Thursday revealed of a cluster of progressive lung disease affecting dentists and other dental workers. Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis The patients, who were treated at a single tertiary care center in Virginia, were diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, or IPF, a type of chronic lung disease marked by a progressive and irreversible decline in lung function. Symptoms of the disease include gradual onset of a dry cough and shortness of breath. The disease does not have a cure yet and those affected often live only about three to five years after diagnosis. The cause of the illness is unknown. Cluster Of IPF Cases Of the nine patients in the cluster, seven died over the reported period of 16 years from September 1996 to June 2017. A cluster refers to a collection of cases of a disease or a health-related condition closely grouped in time and place. Records from the Virginia