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I found out that my disease isn't rare at all

Unrest • 2017
I found out that my disease isn't rare at all

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I found out that my disease isn't rare at all.
Duration
5 seconds
Views
51
Timestamp in Movie
00:23:36
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary, drama, history
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Movie Summary

When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.
That means it’s twice as common as multiple sclerosis. - Unrest 00:05
That means it’s twice as common as multiple sclerosis.
I know people who can work and you’d never know from looking at them that they were sick. - Unrest 00:08
I know people who can work and you’d never know from looking...
A quarter of us are homebound or bedridden. - Unrest 00:06
A quarter of us are homebound or bedridden.
Saw someone collecting the other day for ME. - Unrest 00:05
Saw someone collecting the other day for ME.
That's the one where "I don’t feel like going to work today." - Unrest 00:10
That's the one where "I don’t feel like going to w...
Jen? Jen? - Unrest 00:06
Jen? Jen?
Okay, let's lay down. - Unrest 00:06
Okay, let's lay down.
So Jen is calling in. Can you see? - Unrest 00:06
So Jen is calling in. Can you see?
I'm Nancy Klimas. I'm a clinical Immunologist which is the study of the immune systems. - Unrest 00:07
I'm Nancy Klimas. I'm a clinical Immunologist whic...
Clinical Immunology's a kind of a very small specialty. - Unrest 00:05
Clinical Immunology's a kind of a very small specialty.
I was one of a kind. I was the only immunologist at my university. - Unrest 00:06
I was one of a kind. I was the only immunologist at my unive...
The year was '84, that was the year HIV hit the scene big time. - Unrest 00:06
The year was '84, that was the year HIV hit the scene b...
My practice was people without HIV but people who didn't make antibody, - Unrest 00:09
My practice was people without HIV but people who didn'...
A patient came in to see me and she had been brutalized by the health care system. - Unrest 00:07
A patient came in to see me and she had been brutalized by t...
She was terribly ill, she was profoundly fatigued. - Unrest 00:05
She was terribly ill, she was profoundly fatigued.
She'd been put on antipsychotics without any mental illness whatsoever. - Unrest 00:07
She'd been put on antipsychotics without any mental ill...
She says, "if you would just at least look at my immune system and see if there's something wrong." - Unrest 00:10
She says, "if you would just at least look at my...
Everything we knew who had to do with the time. And I came back to four weeks later - Unrest 00:11
Everything we knew who had to do with the time. And I came b...
The cells that are antiviral just don't do much in culture that can't kill all the virally infected targets - Unrest 00:10
The cells that are antiviral just don't do much in...
This is a sick immune system. Well she burst into tears and I thought, oh my god. - Unrest 00:06
This is a sick immune system. Well she burst into tears and ...