Friday, November 12, 2010

Josiah Viera's Dream, Struggle Profiled by ESPN's 'E:60'

by FanHouse Staff

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Josiah Viera loves baseball, and he loves the Phillies, specifically Ryan Howard. But Viera is unlike most baseball fans -- the six-year-old has Hutchison Guilford Progeria Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes advanced aging in children and entered public consciousness thanks to the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

Still, the disorder hasn't suppressed Viera's passion, one chronicled on ESPN's "E:60" Tuesday night.

Viera was originally given a clean bill of health upon birth, but a couple of months later his mother, Jennifer Viera, began to suspect something was wrong.

 

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