A second case of someone probably cured of HIV has been reported

infection is easy to control but impossible to cure. Or almost impossible. The exception seems to be Timothy Brown, a man often referred to as the Berlin patient. In 2006, after a decade of successfully suppressing his infection with antiretroviral drugs, Mr Brown developed an unrelated blood cancer, acute myeloid leukaemia. To treat this life-threatening condition he opted, the following year, for a blood-stem-cell transplant.

In cases like this doctors are loth to use the word “cured”, since the future is unpredictable and the mechanism involved serves only to break’s reproductive chain, not to purge the virus from the body entirely. They talk instead of patients being “in remission”. Nevertheless, the experience of the person who will probably come to be known as the London patient is important. It shows that Mr Brown’s case was not a fluke.

Most researchers in the field are proceeding cautiously, testing their results on mice, and with some success. But this is an area that can encourage overreach. The gene-edited-baby scandal which happened in China late last year was, according to those involved, an attempt to engineer the relevant mutation into people from birth.

Such overreach aside, even if the editing of blood stem cells could be made to work reliably, transplanting them back into people would probably remain a rare procedure—for the methods used to kill a patient’s existing bone marrow make such transplantation dangerous in and of itself.

APPropst What economic strategies could be utilized to make this type of cure cheaper and more widespread?

Un avance importante vs VIH, de la ciencia médica. Ojalá y se logre encontrar la cura contra esta enfermedad que tantas muertes ha ocacionado a nivel mundial.

why dont you promote cure status rather depression statement

Probably?

Don't you mean third?

Is this what we've come to with reporting?....it 'probably' happened?

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