London HIV patient becomes world's second AIDS cure hope

[TomSea]

London HIV patient becomes world's second AIDS cure hope
Kate Kelland

LONDON (Reuters) - An HIV-positive man in Britain has become the second known adult worldwide to be cleared of the AIDS virus after he received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV resistant donor, his doctors said.

Almost three years after receiving bone marrow stem cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that resists HIV infection - and more than 18 months after coming off antiretroviral drugs - highly sensitive tests still show no trace of the man’s previous HIV infection.

“There is no virus there that we can measure. We can’t detect anything,” said Ravindra Gupta, a professor and HIV biologist who co-led a team of doctors treating the man.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-aids-cure/london-hiv-patient-becomes-worlds-second-aids-cure-hope-idUSKCN1QL2C0

This is at the Drudge report, otherwise, I might not have found it. Passing it on.

[Bill Cipher]

Wow. 

[Polly Ticks]

Excellent news.  Let's hope they're better able to reproduce it this time.