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unusual facts about bubble boy disease



Carlos Pardo-Villamizar

Pardo's 2005 study, published in the Annals of Neurology, has been cited by many promoters of alternative autism therapies, such as Dan Rossignol, to justify treating children "with a blood product typically reserved for people with severe immune system disorders like the one known as bubble boy disease."

Environmental suit

The concept of an environmental suit protecting someone from contamination is a feature of the boy in the bubble trope: both David Vetter and Ted DeVita at some point used such suits.


see also

Bubble Boy

Severe combined immunodeficiency, sometimes called bubble boy disease, a genetic disorder which results in an extreme vulnerability to infectious diseases