With life in the balance, a mother clings to her son’s words: ‘God’s gonna heal my blood.’

Ethan Blackwell of Saraland remains hospitalized at the National Institutes of Health, where doctors are not only trying to cure him of a rare bacterial infection, but learning more about the infection thought to have previously affected only two other people in America.

With life in the balance, a mother clings to her son’s words: ‘God’s gonna heal my blood.’

Ethan Blackwell of Saraland remains hospitalized at the National Institutes of Health, where doctors are not only trying to cure him of a rare bacterial infection, but learning more about the infection thought to have previously affected only two other people in America.

— Rick Karle, AL.com

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