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Part of Magee’s disease comes from the long term damage that oxygen starvation, industrial gas and unnatural radiation exposures cause to the brain, heart, lungs, skin, blood, hormones and gastrointestinal tract.
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Magee’s Disease is a chronic lifelong condition that may lead to permanent disability. It presents as permanent altitude sickness, regardless of the altitude that the person is at. There is no known cure, only treatment options. Avoidance of very high altitudes by the sea level adapted human may prevent the development of the condition in healthy people.
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Magee’s Disease is also known as High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) and is a form of High Altitude Disease (HAD).
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Magee’s disease is a high altitude commuting disease.
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Developing the diagnosis and treatment for Magee’s Disease has turned me into a world leading expert on High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).
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My job was called “Summit Lead” when on the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea. A few of us would rotate through this position during the weekdays, as we only worked part time on the summit. One of the other “Summit Lead’s” died from fatal gastrointestinal disease. He had spent far more time on the summit than I ever did and had accumulated much larger biologically toxic exposures.
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14,000 feet (4,267 meters) and above: Most people who ascend above 14,000 feet (4,267 meters) develop some form of altitude disease. Descent is the recommended treatment.
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When I took a job at the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO), I had no idea that it would turn me into a world leading expert on High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).
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Regarding the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project atop Mauna Kea, the elephant in the room is High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD).
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