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New opportunity to cure HIV?
German doctors healed an HIV-infected man with a bone marrow transplant.
Clean travel means other experts who do not see it as a future general treatment.
The HIV-infected American man was dying of cancer and a fresh bone marrow transplant was being considered as a last resort.
The operation was carried out in 2007 and has now met with exceptional success.
The man was not only free of his cancer. Even the HIV virus seems to have disappeared.
According to Dr. Thomas Schneider and his colleagues, there seems to be no hiding somewhere in the body.
"Our results strongly suggest that this patient has been cured of HIV," they write in the medical journal Blood.
The donor was immune
The explanation lies in the transplant itself. The bone marrow came from a donor immunized against HIV. An unlikely journey since only 1% of the population has the mutation of the hereditary gene, Delta 32, which prevents the person from getting sick from the HIV virus.
It also means that very difficult treatment can hardly be a general treatment for people with HIV who are at risk of developing AIDS.
"This is not very practical and can kill people," says Dr. Robert Gallo on Swedish television.
He is one of the researchers who once identified the HIV virus.
Today, it is estimated that 33 million children and adults are carriers of infection in the world.
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