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	Dr. PETERS: However, when you do get the disease it's very serious. More than half of the patients who've gotten the disease have died despite good medical care.
	SURVIVOR - TIM: People comment about the few cases of virus and that it's not really something to worry about because either they've been around them for 40 years or they've done the same thing for 40 years and that they never got sick or exposed, or it's not a problem for them.
	And it is not a problem unless you happen to be the one who got infected. And then it becomes a real problem.

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