 After one local family received the news that their baby was diagnosed with Crabba disease, a message they hope to share is the importance of getting newborn screenings. Wednesday, Mountaintop spoke with parents Alexandria and James Absure about Emma's story. Emma was born December 27th at 8.13 a.m. She was 6 pounds, 11 ounces, 19 inches long. She was perfectly healthy. No problems at birth. Two days later, we took home a healthy baby. And then on January 1st, we received a call from a geneticist in Lexington, Kentucky, who said that Emma's newborn screening came back abnormal. On January 1st, Emma Absure was diagnosed with Crabba disease, a severe neurological condition that affects the nervous system. According to MedlinePlus.gov, children with Crabba disease rarely survive past the age of two, and as Absure says, not all states require testing. The faster these babies are diagnosed, the better chances are that they will be able to receive treatment in time because most of the time they don't find out that they have Crabba until they start to show symptoms. As Emma's condition was caught early, she will undergo an experimental treatment known as an umbilical cord blood transplant. As for how Crabba works, both parents must contain the gene to pass it on. How your child gets Crabba disease is the parents, both parents have to be carriers, and then they pass down a mutated gene. And it's a one in four chance that your child will have Crabba disease. So we have one perfectly healthy child, and then we have one who has Crabba disease, and we had no idea that we were carriers until Emma was diagnosed. Following her diagnosis, Absure says she hopes other parents get tested, as Emma's treatment is not a cure. It slows down the progression of the disease. So eventually sometime in her life, she will start to show symptoms, and she will most likely have developmental delays. And she may walk with assistance, or she may never walk at all. She may be wheelchair bound. There's so many things that they can tell you about Crabba disease, and there's so many things that they can't tell you. It's different for every child, and it's especially different for every child that has received transplants. If you would like to help Emma and her family, you can visit GoFundMe.com keyword help Emelon fight Crabba disease. For mountaintop news, I'm Joel Chorjol.