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Northern Minnesota boy is first American to receive groundbreaking treatment for muscular dystrophy

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Colton Belluzzo was diagnosed with a form of muscular dystrophy when he was 7 months old .

The disease weakens muscles over time, and most people with DMD don't live past the age of 30.

Doctors injected a virus with a gene therapy that slows down the progression of DMD .

The hope is that this therapy will buy time for other treatments.

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