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Swedish girl with rare condition undergoes specialized treatment in Utah

Carl Molstad said his daughter Edith, who turns 11 on Wednesday, has lived two different lives: one before her seizures, and one after. She used to love playing soccer, hanging out with friends and going to school. But all of that vanished — like “that,” her father said Monday, snapping his fingers — at age 7, when Edith developed a rare condition called FIRES epilepsy, which stands for febrile-infection related epilepsy syndrome.

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