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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Rikki Loftus & Jessica Taylor

Boy, 5, with rare immune disorder lives in isolation and can't go to school

A mum has told how she has to keep her five-year-old son in isolation to stop him from getting infections that could kill him.

Emily Chaney, 36, has been guarding little Jacob all his life after he was born with a rare immune disorder, haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH).

HLH causes the body to react inappropriately to a "trigger" which usually comes from an infection of some kind.

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