Lupus Awareness Month: What to know

CHICAGO (WLS) -- May is Lupus Awareness Month.

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One and a half million Americans are living with it, and many of them are doing so in silence.

Dr. Nakita Cloud is the founder and CEO of the Cloud Medical Institute on Chicago's South Side, and she knows this disease personally. She's a lupus survivor.