Parents plead for research donations

THE parents of an 18-month old boy — one of only 50 people in the world to be diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease — have pleaded for people to donate money to medical research which could save his life.

Little Joseph Swift suffers from Aicardi Goutieres Syndrome, an incurable, degenerative neurological disease.

It is an extremely rare form of Leukodystrophy, which means he has very little control over any of the muscles in his body and he can’t drink fluid because of the risk of choking.