Amazing: A Child Has Been Officially Cured of HIV, But There are Skeptics
A child has been cured of HIV, according to an announcement made by Doctors on Sunday. This will make the little girl only the second person in history to have been known to be cured of the virus that causes AIDS since the virus emerged on the scene 32 years ago.
The first person cured was Timothy Brown, known as the Berlin patient, a middle-aged man with leukemia who received a bone-marrow transplant from a donor genetically resistant to H.I.V. infection.
Scientists, at a conference in Atlanta presented details of the case last Sunday. They won’t name the little girl but say that she is now 2 ½ years old.
Hannah Gay, associate professor at the University of Mississippi, says of the girl who was born in rural Mississippi and was treated 30 hours after birth with antiretroviral drugs, “I’m sort of holding my breath that this child’s virus doesn’t come back in the future. I’m certainly very hopeful that it will produce studies that will show us a way to cure other babies in the future.”
Deborah Persaud, co-author of the report and associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center said, “For pediatrics, this is our Timothy Brown. It’s proof of principle that we can cure H.I.V. infection if we can replicate this case.”
An estimated 330,000 children throughout the world are infected with HIV every year, although only a small number are infected in the U.S. Until this recent breakthrough, the children would have had to have lifetime treatment to prevent the HIV virus from developing into full-blown AIDS.
However, some experts are not thoroughly convinced that the girl had really been infected. Dr. Daniel R. Kuritzkes, chief of infectious diseases at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston said, “The one uncertainty is really definitive evidence that the child was indeed infected.”
Dr. Persaud said that there was little doubt that the child experienced what she called a “functional cure.”
According to information being released, however, the mother and girl went missing when the girl was about 18 months old. Social services were brought in to help find them by doctors.
According to Gay, five months after the girl and mother disappeared, they returned, and the little girl had taken no medication during the time of absence. Doctor’s expected to find that she showed high levels of HIV, but astonishingly, she appeared in good health, with almost no detectable level of the infection. The odd set of circumstances leaves some in the scientific community skeptical about the case.
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I hope it’s a break through, that would be a wonderful thing!
However, this does not mean all of you can go out and act like it’s the roaring 70′s!
Let your guard down and you will get HIV-AIDS, guarenteed!
There is not a cure yet, and may not be one in your life time!
Take heed!
James Johnson
March 4, 2013 at 4:47 pm
This is ridiculous there are many cures for this patented, man invented so called disease. The worst part is that the cure is very simple but of course people do not want to believe and rather stay with the disease so be it.
shield
March 4, 2013 at 5:21 pm
I had about this from the BBC world service radio this morning. Well may be its good news not only for the child but for mankind as whole. It goes to show that we as human have that natural instinct of surviving almost anything that brings an obstacle to us to live. We will always try to overcome and continue to live. The bottom line is the human survival instinct in us that propels us to overcome.
Even though HIV-AIDS Virus is not a natural disease, it’s a man made diseases manufactured in the good old USA (American laboratories). Forget that great lies about the monkey theory in Africa base on racism. One of the biggest lies modern scientists has ever told. The bad thing about this is that majority of us believe it back then and up till today some of you still believe in that junk monkey theory. On the other had what about this AIDS CURE – US Patent 5676977 that is already out there but hidden form us man?
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?46669-AIDS-CURE-US-Patent-5676977
Mr. I
March 4, 2013 at 6:17 pm
For the last 7+ yrs in Philly hundreds was born to positive mothers took meds in utero and 18 mos after birth are HIV Negative. Some mothers didn’t take until the last month and all of the babies are still hiv negative.They won’t study the mother only if they want to get recognized in their Journal.On to the article.AIDS research is a trillion Dollar business.
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