Second HIV cure confirmed

10 March 2020, 19:23 | Science
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Doctors have confirmed the complete cure of HIV infection in the second in the history of the patient. This was reported in the magazine Lancet. The scientific report states that after transplantation of a donor bone marrow, a “London patient” has a stable remission for 30 months. According to the authors of the study, led by Ravindra Gupta of Cambridge University, the virus completely disappeared from the patient’s blood. “Berlin patient” Timothy Ray Brown became the first person to be completely cured of HIV. He got rid of the disease 13 years ago. The name of the second patient was not disclosed, but the media write that he is 40-year-old Adam Castillejo from Venezuela.

The man allegedly fell ill with HIV in 2003, and later he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He underwent bone marrow transplantation to defeat oncology, but with it he managed to cure the patient from HIV infection.. The fact that the second person managed to completely recover from HIV became known in early March 2019. The Correspondent also wrote that a natural defense against all viruses was discovered.. News from Telegram. Subscribe to our channel https: // t. me / korrespondentnet Author: 1.




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