8-month-old Sumter baby diagnosed with rare syndrome has 2- to 3-year life expectancy

BY ASHLEY MILLER
ashley@theitem.com
Posted 5/16/23

Two to three years. That's all a family of five is expected to have with their newborn baby.

On April 26, doctors diagnosed 8-month-old Salem Emmersyn Marra with a rare neurological disease called Leigh Syndrome. Her parents, Joseph, 33, and …

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