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May 5, 2009
With all of this talk of swine flu, I am reminded that my son was diagnosed with type 1 a few weeks after having the flu. He tested positive in December of 2000 for the flu then in January of 2001 was showing symptoms of type 1. We didn’t know at the time that he had a genetic predisposition because my husband and I are both adopted. Later when we found my birth father’s family, we learned that he had a brother who had type 1, giving our family a genetic predisposition to the disease. The flu was the trigger that sent the white blood cells off to attack the pancreas. I know we could not have avoided all sickness and thus avoided type 1, but it does make the flu an especially negative thought for me!
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