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Is there a disease that kills by preventing sleep?

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The History of Fatal Familial Insomnia

This is insomnia that will kill you. Like, without no ifsanes are butts, you will die. It's very frequently passed down along family lines. They think possibly 100 people have died from fatal familial insomnia since they started analyzing this or noticed it in the 18th century.

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