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Parkinson's is a brain disease and a movement disorder involving shaking, tremor, unsteady gait, falling, and rigidity. As the second-most prevalent brain disorder in Canada, more than 100,000 people are affected. But Parkinson's is a disease of the elderly. Why would someone like [Bev] Lavender, diagnosed when she was 44, be struck?

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