Friday, January 20, 2012

BETHESDA'S
REAL-LIFE
BUBBLE BOY
BURSTS OUT
OF 5 MONTH
ISOLATION

Move over, John Travolta: A real-life case of Bubble Boy syndrome at Bethesda's National Institutes of Health took an uplifting turn yesterday.

Timmy Osbourne, only a year-and-a-half old, had spent nearly a third of his life in a 15x30' room at the world famous NIH. Doctors said Osbourne, whose condition is more properly termed "Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Syndrome," could now safely live in a normal environment.

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