Chinese father makes own medicine in desperate bid to treat son’s fatal genetic disease | South China Morning Post

In China’s southwestern Yunnan province, two-year-old Haoyang may only have a few months to live because he suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Menkes syndrome. In a desperate effort to save his dying son, Xu Wei has assembled a home laboratory to try and create a treatment for his child. The disease is incu…

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