Baby’s ‘Nagging Cough’ Leads to Shock Diagnosis of Rare, Incurable and Deadly Disease

A Vermont mother shares her experience of how a common cough led to the diagnosis of her baby's rare, incurable, and deadly disease. Christian Leduc was diagnosed with hypomyelination with atrophy of the basal ganglia and cerebellum (H-ABC), which is a severe form of TUBB4A leukodystrophy - a rare, debilitating and life-threatening genetic disease that mainly affects babies and children. The dis..