![]() The catch? The best stem cells would come from his brother Judah, 20 months, who turned out to be a perfect match. Ezra’s condition was detected early, before he developed a life-threatening infection tied to his impaired immune system, and he was able to receive a bone-marrow transplant when he was eight weeks old. “I did not want to open the door to fear,” she said.īut their worry quickly turned to relief when the Dixons learned that, unlike David Vetter, who died at age 12, their baby could be treated and even cured. The couple, who are ministry students temporarily living in Arlington, Washington, turned to family and faith for support. “We spent a couple of days thinking we’d have a ‘bubble boy’ for the rest of our lives.” “The most I’d ever known about immune deficiency was what I’d seen on ‘House’,” recalls Rachel Dixon. They recognized SCID only from popular TV shows and the old John Travolta movie, “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,” inspired by David Vetter, a Texas boy who had the disease. The news that their 3-day old baby had a rare and potentially fatal disease was a shock to Ezra’s young parents, Rachel Dixon, 24, a former apartment manager, and Zach Dixon, 25, a construction worker, both from Spokane, Washington. When lab staff analyzed the drop of blood pricked from his heel shortly after birth, they found none of the T-cells that protect the body from infection, a certain sign of the rare disorder. The bald, blue-eyed boy is the only child in the state so far diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency, or SCID, detected through the program. Some 22,610 babies were tested before him and more than 28,000 have been tested since, all negative, health records show. Viruses, Vaccines and Infectious DiseasesĮzra Dixon was born April 7, four months after the state of Washington first started screening newborns for the disorder commonly known as “bubble boy disease,” which leaves its victims at the mercy of common germs. ![]() ![]() Institutional Partners & Collaborations.Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division.Respect the community, and do not consign their comments to the memory hole. If your submission is popular, please don't delete it. Always message the mods instead of attacking users in public. No file lockers, torrents or linkjacking: site must stream video.Īny brigading or continual harassment of one user against another may result in a ban. if they're wrong, tell them why! Personal attacks or comments that insult, demean or threaten users will be removed and result in bans. Mods reserve the right to apply the don't be a jackass rule. The following are not considered documentaries on this subreddit: TV news, articles, interviews, lectures, amateur home videos, mockumentaries, biopics, and vlogs. Soliciting for donations or linking to your own YouTube channel is annoying and prohibited.ĭocumentaries only. Please upvote if it adds to intelligent discussion, downvote if it doesn't. tag is mandatory in the description for trailers A (CC) tag in the description is strongly encouraged. Do not post titles or descriptions using 100% capitalised words. Posting format: Title (year) - optional short description Ĭorrect title, year of release and length are mandatory. Submissions and comments from brand-new accounts will be removed. Welcome, friends! Check the top of the subreddit for a request thread Search By Topic
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