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NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel went on the Today show Tuesday morning, along with his wife, and made a surprising revelation: Their young son suffers from a lifelong, incurable genetic condition. Engel’s son Henry was diagnosed with a variation of Rett syndrome around his second birthday. Engel says he and his wife, Mary Forrest, understood that something wasn’t right when close to the age of 2, Henry couldn’t talk, walk, sit up straight, or clap his hands. After visiting several doctors, they finally got a diagnosis: Rett syndrome.