David Vetter

David Joseph Vetter III (September 21, 1971–February 22, 1984) was a boy from Houston, Texas who suffered from a rare genetic disease now known as Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Forced to live in a sterile environment, he became popular with the media as the boy in the plastic bubble.

External links

• Houston Press: Bursting the bubble "Bubble Boy" David Vetter was hardly the happy, well-adjusted child portrayed in the media. Thirteen years after his death, his friend Mary Murphy is fighting to tell his story.
• Dead or Alive: David, the bubble boy
• About: Freedom for the Boy in the Bubble Gene therapy may hold key to cure

Movies

• The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
• Bubble Boy