{"id":39983,"date":"2021-05-16T02:36:18","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T02:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2021-05-15\/la-insolita-enfermedad-que-acecha-a-la-costa-da-morte.html"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:53:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:53:43","slug":"la-insolita-enfermedad-que-acecha-a-la-costa-da-morte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/la-insolita-enfermedad-que-acecha-a-la-costa-da-morte\/","title":{"rendered":"The unusual disease that stalks the Costa da Morte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The handwritten lines were twisted in the order book of Rogelio Antelo, a native of Corcubi\u00f3n (A Coru\u00f1a) and a butcher in the neighboring town of Cee. The words danced in his notes and sometimes he didn&#039;t even understand their lyrics. \u201cI also felt that I spoke badly, with a strange sensation in my tongue. As if I had worms in my mouth,\u201d he says. I didn&#039;t know it yet, but they were the first symptoms of many. Like that time he was leaving to deliver an order at a bar and he fell on the street, just like that. He even looked around in case anyone had seen him and thought he was drunk. But he didn&#039;t drink, nor had he ever had such bad handwriting. \u201cI didn&#039;t know what, but something was happening to me,\u201d explains the 57-year-old man. It took him five years to name those fallen lines: he suffered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsevier.es\/es-revista-neurologia-295-articulo-la-ataxia-espinocerebelosa-36-sca36--S0213485314002539\" >SCA36, a rare hereditary ataxia discovered in the Costa da Morte regions of A Coru\u00f1a<\/a> and that affects balance, speech and hearing. There are less than 500 cases in the world, about 150 in this part of Galicia alone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2021-05-15\/la-insolita-enfermedad-que-acecha-a-la-costa-da-morte.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCA36 is a hereditary ataxia that affects around 150 people in the A Coru\u00f1a regions of Berganti\u00f1os, Soneira and Fisterra. The degenerative condition causes imbalance, affects speech and generates hearing and motor problems.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":799,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/799"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40050,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39983\/revisions\/40050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}