| 16 weeks 4 days 12 hours ago VT man fights for his son's life
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(NECN) - Michael Guglielmo's 17-month-old son, Giovanni, has spent much of his infancy in the hospital suffering from a rare condition called Nemo.
Nemo, is a chromosomal disorder that can severely compromise a person's body functions, including one's immune system.
Giovanni is one of only a dozen in the U.S. with the disease.
He needed a bone marrow transplant within his first year of life in order to survive and the odds of finding a donor were very low.
Michael launched a massive effort to get more people onto the bone marrow registry and in that pool of potential donors was a match for Giovanni.
NECN's Anya Huneke has more.
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