Wind
Nov 13 2008, 03:10 PM
We all know the pandemic of AIDS and how it's basically a death sentence (minus Magic Johnson). We also know that it pretty much "can't" be cured right?
BERLIN - An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.
While researchers — and the doctors themselves — caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims 2 million lives each year. The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide.
Dr. Gero Huetter said 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.
This is good news right or is it just a fluke? I know when my mom had bone marrow transplant, it got rid of the cancer until it came back again (a month after).
Source (clicky this link!) (http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/eu_med_aids_treatment.html)
BERLIN - An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.
While researchers — and the doctors themselves — caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims 2 million lives each year. The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide.
Dr. Gero Huetter said 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.
This is good news right or is it just a fluke? I know when my mom had bone marrow transplant, it got rid of the cancer until it came back again (a month after).
Source (clicky this link!) (http://health.yahoo.com/news/ap/eu_med_aids_treatment.html)