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A Parent’s Formula of Medicine

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In 2021, the BBC News released a video about a Chinese father making medicines at home to save his son. The father, Xu Wei, was around 30 years old, living in southwestern China. In 2020, his nine-month-old son had been diagnosed with Menkes syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that prevents the body from absorbing copper. Doctors told him there was no cure and his child would not live past three. The only drug known to temporarily ease symptoms, copper histidine, was unavailable in China

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