China couple diagnosed with rare autoimmune disorder together have lost newborn baby

A young Chinese couple who were both diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disorder a year after getting married have lost their newborn baby. The couple in northern China’s Tianjin municipality were diagnosed with Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis last year. The husband, surnamed Li, said only four couples in the world had been diagnosed with the disorder at the same time, and they were the first case in China. Li, 32, had a fever last March, a year after he married his wife. He also felt...

By Fran Lu