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A family affair: One family’s journey with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID)

January 04, 2019

Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is a potentially fatal primary immunodeficiency. This condition is generally considered to be the most serious of the primary immunodeficiencies. Today, early identification of SCID can make possible life-saving interventions. Join the Immune Deficiency Foundation as we speak with Nicole Locastro, a mother of a child diagnosed with SCID through newborn screening. Nicole offers us some thoughtful insights into the family experience and some strategies her family employed along the way.