SCID Kids Leading Healthy, Normal Lives 25 Years After 'Bubble Boy'
Monday, October 12, 2009 - 13:56
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mention the words "bubble boy" and many will recall David Vetter, the kid with big eyes and a thick thatch of dark hair who died 25 years ago after spending almost the entire 12 years of his life in a germ-free, plastic bubble. David was born with severe combined immune deficiency, or SCID, a condition that robbed him of an immune system.
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