Friday, December 17, 2010

German doctors claim first HIV positive man cured

A man who was HIV positive who was given stem cell therapy for leukemia is no longer positive, his doctors say. This is the first instance of a person with the HIV virus ever getting rid of it. If this turns out to be a true "cure" for HIV/AIDS, it will be (like so many other major discoveries of the past) be an accident.

Apparently more research is needed to find out exactly what the stem cells did. Promising.

3 comments:

  1. Very intriguing, I hope it turns out to be true, unless of course, something worse takes its place.

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  2. It hasn't had much coverage here, if any. It seems that the stem cell donor was one of the rare people who can't develop Aids. Interesting.

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  3. There's a story idea in there. Better not pursue it. I'm too busy now.

    Here's hoping for the best.

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