Mar 2019
MEDIA COVERAGE
The second person ever appears to have been successfully cured of HIV, a viral infection that attacks the body's immune system and can worsen into the devastating disease AIDS. The treatment wasn't a new scientific technique or high-tech drug. Instead, the cure was an accidental side-effect of a decades-old medical procedure that was once the basis for a Nobel Prize: a bone marrow transplant. Bone marrow transplants have shown remarkable results in more than 70 different diseases, a wide-ranging list that includes cancers, inherited disorders and diseases of the immune system.
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