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In the United States women develop MS at approximately twice the rate men do, and no one can explain why women are affected most often from the waist down

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Annette Funicello
Age: 70 †
Born: 1942
Born: October 22
Died: 2013
Died: April 8
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Annette Joanne Funicello
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