how many people does this disease effect

Question: how many people does this disease effect
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Asked by joshtm to Philip, Ali on 14 Nov 2014.
- Philip Ratcliffe answered on 14 Nov 2014:
  
  Umm, what disease?
- Alison Thomson answered on 14 Nov 2014:
  
  If you’re talking about the one that I work on, in the UK about 8 babies are born every year with SMA. Although there are 80,000 babies born every year in the UK, so it’s a very very small percentage!

joshtm commented on 15 Nov 2014:

Sorry phill didn’t mean to send this to u ,and yes I did mean the disease u were working on and it sounds like not many but it’s probably not very good for those 8 babies though 🙁

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Philip commented on 17 Nov 2014:

Ah, ok. Well, of course, I do try to eliminate human ignorance and I’d rate that a pretty bad disease: people do actually die of it.

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Question: how many people does this disease effect