Ill check with the center for missing and exploited children. In the meantime, any idea how we can pick up their trail . Yeah, taysachs is most common among certain ethnic groups, particularly the jewish community. Same old story when a else fails, round up the jews. Its also common among frenchcanadians and cajuns. Genetic screening has drastically reduced the amount of taysachs babies. Both parents need to carry the gene and they were probably never tested. If i had a kid with some rare disease, first thing id do is find a doctor who specializes in it. Man its a horrible disease. Worse than most parents can possibly bear. And how close are you to a cure . Years away. Taysachs patients are missing a key enzyme. Without it, a fatty substance builds up in the brain causing progressive loss of function and eventually, death. Would our victim have shown any symptoms . Nothing the parents would have noticed until about six months. Then why did they have their baby tested . The cherry red s