Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Only One Person In History Has Ever Been Cured Of HIV. How Did It Happen? | IFLScience

Only One Person In History Has Ever Been Cured Of HIV. How Did It Happen? | IFLScience: "Despite decades of research leading to a vast improvement in our knowledge of the virus and the disease it causes, there is still no cure for HIV.

But one man, the infamous “Berlin Patient” Timothy Ray Brown, received a functional cure for HIV back in 2007. He remains the only individual to have been completely rid of the virus, but scientists were not sure which aspect of his treatment was responsible for curing him. Now, a new study has finally shed some light on this mystery and has eliminated one possible explanation."



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