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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Shelby Lum and Lauran Neergaard

Kids get diseases like lupus, too. As researchers hunt better treatments, this camp brings joy

Autoimmune Diseases Children - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A doctor advising ... sleepaway camp? That’s how a 12-year-old diagnosed with lupus found himself laughing on a high-ropes course as fellow campers hoisted him into the air.

“It’s really fun,” said Dylan Aristy Mota, thrilled that he got a chance at the rite of childhood — thanks to doctors reassuring his mom that they'd be at this upstate New York camp, too. Dylan felt good knowing if “anything else pops up, they can catch it faster than if we had to wait til we got home.”

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