Check out this inspiring story of a Man cured of HIV by a bone marrow transplant. Is this a fluke or could it lead to a cure? You be the Judge.
ADULT Stem Cell Transplant Cures HIV-Positive Man, Say Docs
Via: Foxnews.com
There’s an estimated 33 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS, and now doctors believe one of them may have been cured of the virus after receiving a stem cell transplant in 2007, the medical journal Blood reported.
Timothy Ray Brown, an HIV-positive American living in Germany, had leukemia and was undergoing chemotherapy, when he received a transplant of stem cells from a donor carrying a rare, inherited gene mutation that seems to make carriers virtually immune to HIV infection.
