SCID kids leading healthy, normal lives 25 years after 'Bubble Boy'
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 09:14
in Health & Medicine
DURHAM, N.C. -- 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.
