A two-year-old boy captured hearts inside the Oval Office as US President Donald Trump spoke about a breakthrough in medical treatment.
Travis Smith, a toddler who was born deaf, became the highlight of a White House event after he wandered across the Oval Office carpet, dancing, crawling and playfully lying on the floor.
Trump hails ‘incredible’ breakthrough, praising a new treatment that helped restore Travis’s hearing.
The therapy, developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, is part of a new wave of gene-based treatments aimed at addressing rare genetic conditions.
Travis received the treatment as part of a clinical trial when he was around 18 months old, after being diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation linked to congenital deafness.
