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Michael Jackson's representative has denied the singer is suffering from a potentially deadly genetic disease, insisting he is in "fine health".

The 50-year-old singer's spokesman Dr. Tohme Tohme has dismissed claims made by biographer Ian Halperin that the Thriller star is close to death because he is battling inherited condition A1AD (alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency) which leaves sufferers without a protein needed to protect the lungs.
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