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East Rutherford Friends Help Girl, 7, With Rare Disease
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — A GoFundMe campaign for an East Rutherford 7-year old girl suffering from an immune system disease has raised nearly $2,500 as of Tuesday evening.
In December, Vanessa Uribe was diagnosed with Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis — a disease occurring when antibodies produced by the body’s own immune system attack NMDA receptors in the brain.
The symptoms of the disease include memory loss, sleep disorders, speech dysfunction, cognitive and behavioral disturbances, severe movement disorders, autonomic dysfunction and loss of consciousness.
The crowdfunding campaign for …