Timothy Bingham, 28, was first badly affected by the flu at the age of two but was able to largely recover.<\/p>\n
A second bout at age four badly affected his mobility and the dexterity in his arms but he was able to achieve 80% recovery.<\/p>\n
At the age of six, Mr Bingham became fully paralysed under similar circumstances. He has used a wheelchair ever since and needs constant care.<\/p>\n
A connection was made between the infections and his reaction, and risks have been managed since.<\/p>\n
“It’s hard for him to chew and he can’t drink unassisted,” said Tim’s mother Kate Bingham.<\/p>\n
“He can’t move in bed so needs turning throughout the night. The things we all take for granted he can’t do.” <\/p>\n
She added: “The discovery of a gene which is linked to what happened to Tim means everything to me.<\/p>\n
“For so long we have lived with uncertainty of not knowing the full picture.<\/p>\n
“This breakthrough brings us great hope as it will do to all those people who have waited years for answers.”<\/p>\n
The study was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, LifeArc and the Wellcome Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timothy Bingham, 28, was first badly affected by the flu at the age of two but was able…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[49,48,316,66],"class_list":["post-19975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}