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Bookmark or Share- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) in ChildrenThe disease is also known as the “boy in the bubble” syndrome because living in a normal environment can be fatal to a child who has it. This disease is passed down from parents to child (inherited).
- The story of David Vetter | Immune Deficiency FoundationDavid Vetter, affectionately known as the boy in the bubble, was born with severe combined immune deficiency (SCID). He captured the world’s attention as he lived at Texas Children’s Hospital in germ-free environments for 12 years.
- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) - Children's Hospital of ...Commonly called the “bubble boy disease” or “boy in the bubble” syndrome, SCID became widely known in the 1970s and ’80s due to the publicity and later a movie about David Vetter, a boy with X-linked SCID, who lived in a plastic, germ-free bubble for 12 years.
- Severe combined immunodeficiency - WikipediaIt is also known as the bubble boy disease and bubble baby disease because its victims are extremely vulnerable to infectious diseases and some of them, such as David Vetter, have become famous for living in a sterile environment. SCID is the result of an immune system so highly compromised that it is considered almost absent.
- St. Jude gene therapy cures babies with 'bubble boy' diseaseThe children were enrolled in an ongoing clinical trial of infants newly diagnosed with SCID-X1, the most common type of SCID, a rare, life-threatening genetic disorder that is sometimes called “bubble boy” disease.
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