A rare syndrome affects Ecuador's southern region
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Laron Syndrome is such a rare disorder that only a handful of people have been diagnosed with it worldwide. The largest single group that is "affected" by it, live in a town in the south of Ecuador.
Gerry Hadden has the story.
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