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Approximately $1.3 million was spent on Vetter's care, but scientific study failed to produce a true cure and no donor match was identified. Vetter later received a bone marrow transplant from his sister Katherine. While his body did not reject the transplant, [4] he became ill with infectious mononucleosis after a few months. [7]
David Vetter, the original "bubble boy", had one of the first transplantations also, but eventually died because of an unscreened virus, Epstein-Barr (tests were not available at the time), in his newly transplanted bone marrow from his sister, an unmatched bone marrow donor. Today, transplants done in the first three months of life have a high ...
His story, along with that of Texas SCID patient David Vetter, inspired the 1976 TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. In the film, John Travolta played Tod, a teenage boy who lived in a sterile bubble due to illness. DeVita was 14 when the film, unauthorized by his family, was released.
A fact from David Vetter appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 October 2004. The text of the entry was as follows: The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know ... that during David Vetter ' s short life he only had contact with another human being twice , on the time of his birth and on the time of his death ...
Dreaming of a Vetter World is a 2018 American documentary film directed by filmmaker Bonnie Hawthorne. The film explores the life of pioneering organic farmer David Vetter , his farm's role in popularizing the organic farming movement in the United States, and the role that soil management has in Vetter's farming practices.
Katherine Rich, who married William Marrow or Marowe (1410-1464), Lord Mayor of London in 1455, by whom she had three sons, William, John and Thomas, and three daughters. [5] [10] Isabel Rich, who married Sir Thomas Urswick (d. 19 March 1479). They had four sons, all of whom predeceased Sir Thomas, and eight daughters, only five of whom ...
Clement Throckmorton (c. 1512 – 14 December 1573), of Haseley in Warwickshire, who married Katherine Neville, eldest daughter of Sir Edward Neville of Addington Park in Kent [7] by his wife, Eleanor Windsor, a daughter of Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor, by whom he had six sons and seven daughters, including Job Throckmorton.
Isobel Katherine Stevens, M.D. is a fictional character from the medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy, which airs on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States. The character was created by series producer Shonda Rhimes , and was portrayed by actress Katherine Heigl from 2005 to 2010.