Bubble baby gene therapy 'worth the risk'

Rhys Evans was born with no functioning immune system and no resistance to infection.

Even simple germs like a cold could have killed him.

Today he is celebrating his 10th birthday and he is a healthy, happy schoolboy.

Thanks to ground-breaking gene therapy treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital, Rhys has a working immune system and is able to live a normal life.

But it was not always that way. Rhys, from the village of Nelson in Caerphilly county, was born with a fatal genetic disorder called X-SCID - X-linked severe combined  immunodeficiency.

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