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Dentists keep dying of this deadly lung disease. The CDC can't figure out why. - SFGate

Seven of the patients were dead, and two more were dying of a rare chronic, progressive lung disease that can be treated but not cured. It's estimated that about 200,000 people in the United States have Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) at any one time.