Toddler has 'baby in bubble syndrome'
LITTLE fighter Melody Davies is racing against time to find a bone marrow donor after she was born with no immune system.
The three-month-old tot has been diagnosed with a genetic disorder called severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) which affects just one in 500,000 babies and means a common cold could kill her.
Doctors have told her worried parents, Lauren Travis, 23, and Scott Davies, 28 – who both carry the rare faulty gene – they have just three weeks to find a bone marrow donor before Melody will be sent for pioneering gene therapy at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
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