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Michael Jackson is battling a genetic disease that has left him half blind and needing a lung transplant, London's Sun newspaper is reporting.
The 50-year-old Jackson is said to be so frail he can barely speak.
“He needs a lung transplant, but may be too weak to go through with it. He also has emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, which his doctors have had a lot of trouble stopping," Jackson’s biographer, Ian Halperin, told London's Sun.
“It’s the bleeding that’s the most problematic part. It could kill him.”
Halperin, an award-winning investigative journalist from Montreal, said Jackson was stricken with an inherited condition called A1AD — alpha-1 anti-trypsin deficiency. Sufferers lack a protein which protects the lungs.
Michael Jackson is battling a genetic disease that has left him half blind and needing a lung transplant, London's Sun newspaper is reporting.
The 50-year-old Jackson is said to be so frail he can barely speak.
“He needs a lung transplant, but may be too weak to go through with it. He also has emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, which his doctors have had a lot of trouble stopping," Jackson’s biographer, Ian Halperin, told London's Sun.
“It’s the bleeding that’s the most problematic part. It could kill him.”
Halperin, an award-winning investigative journalist from Montreal, said Jackson was stricken with an inherited condition called A1AD — alpha-1 anti-trypsin deficiency. Sufferers lack a protein which protects the lungs.