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In a story that could only be described as utterly heartbreaking, Josh Talbot, a junior Radio-TV-Film student at UT, is in desperate need of both white blood cells and a bone marrow donor. What started out as a case of mononucleosis in September has morphed into a very rare complication from Epstein-Barr called Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH). We’ll spare you a long-winded medical dissertation and sum it up for you: HLH overproduces infection-fighting white blood cells and results in organ failure. HLH can be fatal. Though HLH is not cancer, treatment protocol calls for chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.