Little girl with childhood alzheimers receives miracle gene therapy

Eliza O'Neill was diagnosed with Sanfilippo Syndrome a form of childhood Alzheimers, when she was just three-years-old. 

This disease causes brain damage, and sufferers of the illness rarely live to see adulthood. 

One in 70,000 babies are born with the condition every year,  and the diagnosis is devastating for parents, with a 100% mortality rate. 

However, for little Eliza there is hope, as she becomes the first person to receive a new form of gene therapy that may combat her disease. 

Scientists discovered that a particular gene achieved positive results, and so the  O'Neill family began fundraising through the Saving Eliza Gofundme campaign in rder to pay for their child's treatment. 

Eliza went into almost two years of isolation in order to prevent any immunity to the particular gene being used in the treatment. 

It would appear as though the treatment was a success, with Eliza's father saying "we see a new light in Eliza's eyes… she is connecting with us in a way we thought was gone forever. She is working to regain the skills the disease stripped away in the 6 and half years it tore through her body. She is a fighter!"

The treatment has increased her chance at a good life and the family now have hope for a renewed future.

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