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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Paige Freshwater

Heartbroken girl with rare disorder as 'therapy' dog is mysteriously paralysed

A nine-year-old girl has been left heartbroken after her dog could no longer walk after developing a mystery condition overnight.

Young owner Ava Davies, from Walsall, West Midlands, was diagnosed with DiGeorge syndrome, a condition present from birth that causes a range of lifelong problems, including heart defects.

Brave Ava underwent open-heart surgery at just three-days-old at Birmingham Children’s Hospital before being diagnosed with the rare condition which impacts just 1 in 4,000 births.

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