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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Alice Peacock

Family’s nightmare as mysterious illness causes boy, 4, to become completely paralysed

The family of a “healthy” young boy had their lives thrown into turmoil when a mysterious illness saw the tot wake up in unbearable pain and become completely paralysed in less than 24 hours.

Four-year-old Oliver Davis had been a happy, active four-year-old before he woke up on Monday June 2, in 2018, in “unbearable” pain.

His mum Belinda, from New South Wales, Australia, recalled Oliver telling her that he couldn’t sit up.

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