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The Story of Epilepsy
Laws forbidding marriage and permitting sterilization of people with epilepsy weren't repealed in some states until the 1960s. Epilepsy is so much more prevalent than I realized before researching this episode. Globally, there's an estimated 125,000 deaths each year related to epilepsy. In low resource settings, this risk may be up to seven times higher.