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Boy with so-called 'Benjamin Button' disease dies at 17

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In an attempt to please the masses, I found a more current news article.

A Massachusetts boy with a rare genetic condition that accelerates the aging process and who became the subject of an HBO documentary has died. Sam Berns was 17.

Berns, of Foxborough, died Friday after complications from progeria, the so-called "Benjamin Button" disease. The Progeria Research Foundation announced his death.

Berns was diagnosed with progeria at 22 months. His parents founded the nonprofit foundation after encountering a lack of information and research on the fatal condition, whose victims live an average of 13 years.

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http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/national_world&id=9390670#&cmp=fb-kgo-article-9390670

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