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Sick infant refugee on border brought to Jordan hospital

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AMMAN - Jordan's military says it brought a Syrian toddler and his family into the kingdom for medical treatment after a video of a sick child crying in distress sparked sympathy online.

 

The widely shared video shows the screaming boy with a scrotum swollen to the size of half his head, as a man pleads for assistance.

 

A UN aid agency confirmed that the boy in the video was the one evacuated Wednesday from the Rukban desert encampment where tens of thousands of Syrians are stranded on the border with Jordan.

 

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