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Pompe disease

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In a first, doctors treat a fatal genetic disease before birth

Jonel Aleccia - Associated Press

The girl, now 16 months, began receiving a critical protein her body can't make while still in the womb. The disease killed two of the girl's sisters before they turned 3.