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August 28, 2025

DEVASTATING AND RARE BRAIN DISEASE

- By WILLIAM TELFORD

A YOUNG Plymouth girl is seriously ill in hospital with a devastating and rare brain disease which caused her heart to stop beating and left her in severe pain. Little Paisley-jade Bellerby has been on life support in a hospital in Bristol where her worried family is with her.

The seven-year-old suffers from acute necrotizing encephalopathy, described by doctors as a “devastating neurologic condition” that can arise following an infection and can lead to “rapid changes in consciousness, focal neurological deficits, and seizures”.

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