China more resolute to fight rare diseases

GUIYANG: Wang Chaobin (pseudonym) and his wife, residents in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, gave birth to two babies, who both passed away when they were less than one year old.
Their third child developed symptoms of coughing, wheezing, and breathing difficulties when he was nine months old. After treatment at the Guizhou Hospital of Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, the little boy was temporarily out of danger.
After knowing the couple’s reproductive history, doctors at the hospital carried out tandem mass spectrometry and gene testing. –Agencies