Girl, 4, couldn’t walk or speak after getting rhabdomyolysis, which killed NYC Marathon runner, from common cold

Fuente: New York Post

A New Jersey tot was left unable to walk and speak after developing rhabdomyolysis from the common cold, according to her father, who’s trying to raise more awareness of the rare disorder that killed a New York City Marathon runner this week. Ali Modica was just 4 when an apparent mild sickness resulted in heart and kidney failure, leading to a brain injury that left her requiring full-time care and intensive physical and occupational therapy. “We thought it was the common cold running through the body,” Ali’s father, 38-year-old Joe Modica, told The Post, explaining how he, his wife, and their two younger sons, also fell ill with mild symptoms around the same time on Jan.