‘The dad of a kid with a similar disability as young Charlie Gard made an emotional and moving plea on behalf of the Gard family.
I have read about this, and seen several claims that as many as 18 kids have been treated.
These kids, however, have a different disease than little Charlie. They have thymidine kinase 2 (tk2) deficiency. Charlie has ribonucleotide reductase small subunit 2 b (RRM2B) mutation. He is the 16th child diagnosed with this disease, and no child afflicted has ever lived beyond a few months. Nor has any child with RRM2B mutation ever been treated.
I did some analysis the other night: Post 47.
‘From what I understand, they are proposing using a completely untested “treatment” on him. Giving chemicals without any real knowledge of how they will affect a human body could very well cause him pain.’
If the treatment has been used on other kids, how is it “completely untested”?