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Just days into his life, Sierra Ott’s infant son Liam took a turn for the worse. His doctors thought he might need surgery. He took an emergency flight from Fairbanks.

“While he was there, they determined that he had hemophilia based on a heel prick that never stopped bleeding,” Ott said in a phone interview Friday. “He was diagnosed with severe hemophilia…