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Airlines Thwart Plans of 'Too Sick' Girl, 5, to Travel to China for Stem Cell Treatment

by Riley Jones on Mon 30 Jun 2008 05:20 PM EDT | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Two airlines this weekend declined to fly Miranda Goranflo and her daughter Hailey to Beijing, where the 5-year-old was to receive stem-cell treatments for a rare fatal disease, the Courier-Journal reported.

The airlines, Air China and Air Canada, decided during a layover in Vancouver, British Columbia, that Hailey was "too sick" to fly this weekend. After being treated at a Vancouver hospital for seizures, the girl and her mother were forced to fly home to Shepherdsville, Ky., the report said.

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