Cure for AIDs found???

[redrumloa]

http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/eu_med_ ... tment.html

Dr. Gero Huetter said Wedneday his 42-year-old patient, an American living in Berlin who was not identified, had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than a decade. But 20 months after undergoing a transplant of genetically selected bone marrow, he no longer shows signs of carrying the virus.

"We waited every day for a bad reading," Huetter said.

It has not come. Researchers at Berlin's Charite hospital and medical school say tests on his bone marrow, blood and other organ tissues have all been clean.

 

[Robert]

I heard about this on the radio this morning.
Very interesting and let's hope it leads to a cure.
Having said that, there have been cases before where people appeared to have been cured of AIDS that turned out not to be.

 

[Glaucus]

Nice, but I won't be holding my breath. I'll read the article later, but from that short quote I'd say they'd need a much larger test group then just one. Keeping fingers crossed.

 

[cecilia]

I saw this today - what's important is not that one transplant will "cure" AIDS but the implications of what might be done with "genetically selected bone marrow" in future testing.

and now that the US has a rational president (elect), we can see more support for research that will take us to........ who knows what?

 

[faethor]

We can all hope for cures to a disease. I believe they have tried this before and this is the first time it appears, at least in the short term, to have worked. Hopefully, this will provide them some knowledgeable information on where to go from here.