Family members with autoimmune diseases

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My aunt has had RA for 40 years, my Great Aunt died from what was called

" rheumatic disease " - joint pain and swelling, fever, etc. early in the century,

I have a cousin with mixed connective tissue disease, a cousin with an

autoimmune blood disorder (cannot remember the name), an aunt with polymyalgia

rheumatica...tales of others with various types of 'arthritis' so don't know for

sure about others.

Tess