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My father was suffeering from nuerological problem....and died by ffi in last april...doctors told that it was not curable...what is ffi?
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Get checked out: Blood tests exist for evaluating risk of fatal familial insomnia. There are thousands of different neurological disorders. Ffi is uncommon but may be familial as the name suggests.
Answered 9/28/2016
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