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This young boy is a fellow Superhoop and really needs help.
A campaign to find a bone marrow donor for a nine-month-old boy from Northampton has resulted in a huge increase in the number of people from the town registering their details with the Anthony Nolan charity.
Joey Ziadi, of Northampton, was diagnosed in February with Diamond-Blackfan anaemia (DBA), a blood condition that affects only 800 people in the world.
DBA patients fail to produce red blood cells properly and Joey’s parents Kaisha Morris, aged 35, and Andrew Ziadi, aged 34, have been told that he will need a bone marrow transplant to cure him of the disease.
A spokesman for Anthony Nolan said, as a result of the media exposure of Joey’s plight, the Anthony Nolan website has experienced a huge spike in visitors and registrations from the Northampton area.
The spokesman said the ‘Joey effect’ is evident as Anthony Nolan experienced a huge increase in donor applications, with 73 people from Northampton signing up to be donors in the past two weeks. In the same period last year, only seven people from the town agreed to be donors.
A total of 1,496 people from Northampton have also logged on to the Anthony Nolan website, compared to 99 last year.
Kaisha Morris, Joey’s mother, said the response had been “overwhelming.”
The family, with the help of Anthony Nolan, are hosting a donor recruitment event on Sunday, June 8 at the Race for Life event in Abington Park. They are calling on people aged 16 to 30 to attend and sign up to the register.
Ms Morris said: “We need to get as many people to come down and sign up. Any one of them could help to save a life for Joey or someone like him.”
Sarah Roulstone, Regional Register Development Manager at Anthony Nolan, says, “It’s amazing to see what a difference one boy’s story can make. Joey has touched the hearts of thousands of people in Northampton and we’re seeing the Joey effect in terms of people joining the register - but we still urgently need more people to come forward, especially young men as they are the most likely to be chosen to donate but are under-represented on the register.
What many people don’t realise is how easy it is to join the bone marrow register – it simply involves filling in a form and providing a saliva sample.”
Barton has shown his support as well on his twitter page.
So far all the people that have come forward have not been a match, but anyone of us or someone else in the world could be.
Signed for Leicester on 1 year deal.
I know we need to get away from the old timers, but same age as Dunne and much better as well.
BBC reckon he started 32 games last season for Inter so must be in quite good shape.
If the players can get there act together before the game I think we could have a chance in this match.
Liverpool won't go Full strength against us as 3 days later they play Real Madrid in the Champions League.
I would expect to see Sterling, Sturridge and maybe a couple of others rested for this game.
Had a good win last Saturday courtesy of Paddy Power that had Austin at 4/1 to score anytime v the Scum.
Got involved again.
Got Austin at 3/1 to score anytime, and us to win at 7/1.
That was on Tuesday, I think the odds changed hugely after Man City's game on Weds.
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