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Brenda Hass was roused by the smell of burning after accidentally falling asleep after putting water on her stove to boil. However, if the shrill of her smoke detector broke the silence, she wouldn’t be able to hear it.
In 2020, Hass was diagnosed with a progressive form of hearing loss linked to Hashimoto’s disease, an autoimmune thyroid disorder associated with damage to the inner ear’s sound-sensing cells.
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