Cystic fibrosis patients are meant to stay six feet apart. But these sisters are inseparable
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Cystic fibrosis patients are meant to stay six feet apart. But these sisters are inseparable

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If sisters Ruby and Isobel strictly followed medical advice, they wouldn't ever be allowed in the same room. It's because of the "six-foot rule" — an everyday medical protocol that says people with cystic fibrosis should stay at least six feet, or two metres, away from each other. "It's in drains, it's in lakes, in dirt," says Caz Boyd, who has CF and is the president of Cystic Fibrosis WA. "I have friends with CF in the US who've had to try and fundraise something like $500,000 to pay for their lung transplant," says Ms Boyd, who had a double lung transplant in 1994. "The hope is that in 10 years, people with cystic fibrosis will no longer be dying from CF lung-related disease," Ms Boyd says.

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