>>56230978The real life bubble boy had Severe Combined Immunodeficiency and died when he was 12. Instead of Ironmouse's antibody dysfunction, he had a white blood cell dysfunction.
There was another kid that lived until 18 in a sterile environment because he had aplastic anemia, where he body just didn't produce enough new blood in general. He died from an iron overdose from all the blood transfusions. That happened in 1980 and aplastic anemia treatments are vastly more effective nowadays.
