bone marrow

Dozens of cars and perhaps hundreds of people arrived at a New Haven school this morning with the goal of helping find a bone marrow match for a young girl from Summit, New Jersey. Jackie Erb, 5, is one of three children in her family. She has a 7-year-old sister Olivia and a twin named Addison. “She’s such a sweetheart….

Be The Match and the Icla da Silva Foundation conducted a bone marrow registry event in New Haven Saturday aiming to help Jackie Erb and others.

Many people went to a drive-thru bone marrow match event to support a 5-year-old girl with a very rare form of leukemia in New Haven.