A toddler with a rare genetic disorder that leaves him unable to play with other children - forcing him to live in a sanitized 'bubble' - is being denied a cure for his condition because drug companies say it is not profitable enough.Jakob Kamil Guziak, from Alberta in , was diagnosed with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) shortly after birth, a condition that robs children of a functioning immune system. The rare condition is normally a death sentence with just one in five sufferers surviving to their 20th birthday, but in recent years scientists have developed treatments that are up to 95 percent effective against it.
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