Since birth, 10-year-old Carol Mulumba has been shuttled to and from emergency rooms and specialists, fighting a disease that can lead to blindness and organ failure.
But now, according to the family, she’s cured of sickle cell anemia, something traditionally thought impossible.
Her parents praise the wonders of a treatment using stem cells taken from her brother’s umbilical cord blood as the gift that has given their daughter back a normal childhood.
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