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Carol Ann Demaret, right, and her daughter Katherine Canion talk about the movie Bubble Boy Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2001, in The Woodlands, Texas. Demaret's son, David Vetter, was born with an immune system disorder and spent his life in a bubble. He was known worldwide as the bubble boy.
Bubble boy disease is listed as a rare disease by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Bubble boy disease, or a subtype of Bubble boy disease, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population. Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)