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THE MIRACLE OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
At best, he would be able to live only for a few months or a few years
out of this safe environment. So the boy’s entire world was forever bound-
ed by the walls of his plastic tent.
After sometime, the doctors and his family placed the boy in a com-
pletely germfree room which had been specially prepared in his house.
However, all these efforts were useless. In his early teens, when a bone
transplant failed. 1
The boy’s family, doctors, the staff of the hospital where he had ear-
lier stayed, and pharmaceutical companies did their best to keep him
alive. Although absolutely everything was tried, and the boy’s place of
residence was continuously disinfected, his death could not be prevented.
This end clearly shows that it is impossible for a human being to sur-
The boy in a bubble. Born in 1971 with no immune defenses, he was delivered
in a germfree environment at a hospital but his death could not be prevented.
