German Doctor Cures an HIV Patient With a Bone Marrow Transplant

reporter writes "HIV is the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Until now, HIV has no cure and has led to the deaths of over 25 million people. However, a possible cure has appeared. Dr. Gero Hutter, a brilliant physician in Germany, replaced the bone marrow of an HIV patient with the bone marrow of a donor who has natural immunity to HIV. The new bone marrow in the patient then produced immune-system cells that are immune to HIV. Being unable to hijack any immune cell, the HIV has simply disappeared. The patient has been free of HIV for about 2 years. Some physicians at UCLA have developed a similar therapy and plan to commercialize it."

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Re:Like to see this replicated

[arth1]

If you're sterilizing HIV suceptibles, why not people with Down's syndrome, or sickle-cell anemia?

But no-one has advocated sterlilisation based on HIV suscpeptibility. That is an invention all of your own mind, which says more about your views of people with diseases and conditions than it says about mine.

Sterilisation of those who otherwise would have been removed from the gene pool if it wasn't for genetic intervention is a very different thing. That is a measure to reduce our meddling.
Doing so is a far cry from the abominable sterilisation of people because they have contracted a condition, but is similar in effect to refusing to give genetic fertility treatments to 80 year old women.

Re:Like to see this replicated

[Lord Apathy]

First of all the moderators need to chill out. Just because you don't like what is said doesn't mean you can label it a troll. Second, there is no reason for the parent post of this one to be labeled a troll.

The parent post is right to a degree. A pharmacist has no authority to deny you a drug because of religious beliefs. There was one case a few years back where a pharmacist was refusing to prescribe contraceptives because of some bullshit religious belief. He was fired and stripped of his license.