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Court orders woman who almost died in fire to undergo tests to prove symptoms not linked to genetic disease

By: Joseph Brean
National Post
September 26, 2013

In a legal ruling that cuts to the core of medical privacy in the age of the genome, a woman who nearly died in a Calgary house fire and is suing the landlords for negligence has been ordered to undergo testing for Huntington’s Disease, because if she has it, she may be entitled to less compensation.

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