Just 20 seconds after he was born, David Vetter was moved into a sterile plastic bubble, a few feet away from his mother. It would be his home for the next 12 years.
Due to a severe immunodeficiency, doctors feared that even minutes of exposure to the outside world would kill him. So he spent his entire childhood sealed away, never touching another human being. After becoming a national phenomenon and inspiring Hollywood movies, it was clear this couldn’t last. Then, after 12 years, the team thought they finally had a cure.
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