To date researchers see no evidence of waning T-cell function in any of the patients. Since parents were donors in most cases, researchers are considering whether they should bank the parents' stem cells as insurance against some future need. In related immunodeficiency research in late 1995, an AIDS patient was given marrow from a baboon in a highly experimental effort to create a functioning immune system for him. Unfortunately, that experiment proved unsuccessful. Afterword Dr. Howard Rosenblatt conducted the first blood studies on John Graydon Lewis upon the infant's return home to Houston from Durham, and continues to monitor the child's progress.
Every clinical sign is good.
The child is developing normally, has not been hospitalized for any reason, and the prognosis is excellent. He recently celebrated his eighth month of life. Mark Kent Anderson, Jr., is five years old, and except for an occasional bout with ear infections is in excellent health. The virus which attacks the immune system most vigorously is chicken pox. Mark Kent handled it without incident.