Posted on 03/03/2013 4:49:57 PM PST by grandpa jones
JACKSON, Miss. —Doctors at the University of Mississippi Medical Center said they have cured a baby suffering from HIV and the breakthrough is reverberating worldwide. Related
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"There is excitement around this," said Dr. Deborah Persaud of John's Hopkins Children's Center.
Doctors across the country are heralding the medical breakthrough in Jackson.
"We have, perhaps inadvertently, but in fact, cured the child," said Dr. Hannah Gay, associate professor of pediatrics. "We don't know yet what to expect with this patient because she's the first of her kind."
The hospital will not share many details about the 2-and-a-half-year-old who was born HIV positive, saying only the child is from the Mississippi area and was born to a woman with HIV.
Read more: http://www.wapt.com/news/central-mississippi/jackson/Doctors-say-infant-cured-of-HIV-at-UMC/-/9156912/19160176/-/s5dxxhz/-/index.html#ixzz2MWlUEdgN
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You’re welcome, and I wish it was only 20 years. :o)
Researchers Describe First 'Functional HIV Cure' in an Infant
That's a press release. That source, ScienceDaily usually links the original citation. That's iffy when announcements are made at conferences. I don't think the original citation has been published yet. At least PubMed doesn't have it.
LRE Sequester:
last I heard, republicans were laughing because minority babies’ milk bottles were being ripped away because of the sequester...
Heroic democrats were, of course, driving out to farms and actually milking the bulls themselves to get the milk... but it wasn’t milk...
That was republicans’ fault too...because of the sequester. Which was also making airplanes fall out of the sky. That would be the sequester, you understand...you know, the one making bakeries in inner city neighborhoods stop making bread - because of the sequester....
You win. Well played.
You know the Republicans forced Obama to pull the trigger on the sequester, which left the state of Michigan no choice but to foreclose on the entire city of Detroit, don’t you?
Think of it. A whole city in foreclosure because of those rotten, dastardly, unfeeling, brutish Republicans!!
Will no one stop them??? What about the chi’rens???
They’ve even got Reagan look-a-likes stealing beans right outta the homeless folks’ mouths...because of the sequester...
It’s horrible, I tell ya.
I hear tell all the farm animals walked off the job too...
Yeah. I’ll be keeping an eye out for this to make it into PubMed or MMWR. I really would like to see the details.
I tell ya....Obama’s killing us with this sequester.
Why just today, I checked my bank balance and saw that it was down to just a few dollars — but I still have checks!
Now, somebody please explain how that can possibly be. I’m telling you, it’s that damn sequester!
Oh fudge I got Shaq mixed up with the aptly named Magic Johnson which is inexcusable since Magic was the much better player.
So then she repeated testing, thinking something was wrong with the lab test. And it was negative again. At that point in time, she called me because we've worked together as colleagues intermittently since the mid-1990s, caring for HIV-positive kids and doing clinical trials through the NIH-sponsored clinical trials group. When she told me about this, we thought this was quite unusual and so we assembled a team of individuals and went on to do some very specialized research to see exactly how much virus there was in the baby's system and what form it was in. Using those very sensitive tests, we were able to detect occasionally very, very low levels of the viral nucleic acids.
One of the doctors developed a very sensitive culture technique to see whether she can actually grow virus from people's cells. She tried to do that from the baby but she was unable to recover the virus. Then I did immunologic studies, and the kind of the immune repercussions that we usually see in HIV-positive individuals were not there. We retested the baby through 28 months, and the baby has continued to control the virus. In other words, we do not see the viral load coming back in the absence of treatment.
NEWSHOUR: But there are still low levels of the virus in the baby's system?
DR. LUZURIAGA: Yes, but we're not quite sure what it means. These are very low levels of virus that are around and we don't know whether these are false positives or whether they truly constitute viral load but it's just so low that it's tough to detect.
So then she repeated testing, thinking something was wrong with the lab test. And it was negative again. At that point in time, she called me because we've worked together as colleagues intermittently since the mid-1990s, caring for HIV-positive kids and doing clinical trials through the NIH-sponsored clinical trials group. When she told me about this, we thought this was quite unusual and so we assembled a team of individuals and went on to do some very specialized research to see exactly how much virus there was in the baby's system and what form it was in. Using those very sensitive tests, we were able to detect occasionally very, very low levels of the viral nucleic acids.
One of the doctors developed a very sensitive culture technique to see whether she can actually grow virus from people's cells. She tried to do that from the baby but she was unable to recover the virus. Then I did immunologic studies, and the kind of the immune repercussions that we usually see in HIV-positive individuals were not there. We retested the baby through 28 months, and the baby has continued to control the virus. In other words, we do not see the viral load coming back in the absence of treatment.
NEWSHOUR: But there are still low levels of the virus in the baby's system?
DR. LUZURIAGA: Yes, but we're not quite sure what it means. These are very low levels of virus that are around and we don't know whether these are false positives or whether they truly constitute viral load but it's just so low that it's tough to detect.
>> “Using those very sensitive tests, we were able to detect occasionally very, very low levels of the viral nucleic acids.” <<
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Just how could they possibly do this, since no virus has ever been found, but only ‘antibodies?’
The alleged HIV has yet to be isolated and identified.
I would guardedly call this "remission", rather than a cure, at least until further evidence is in.
While the behaviour of the virus may provide information in how to cause similar remission (if in fact the viral load has not been eliminated) in other maladies, that also remains to be seen.
What a world.
I caught a glimpse of some TV show last night saying that the infant does in fact have dead RNA and DNA from HIV in her body.
She was taking three drugs as treatment for HIV.
Perhaps her immune system found a way to kill the HIV?
I don’t know, something stinks here. They weren’t trying to cure HIV, they were just treating it, and boom it’s gone?
That is my point. HIV most surely does NOT cause AIDS.
This is a complete sham. No blind test has ever been done, and will not be done because the result would shut down their golden goose.
The supposed ‘HIV’ antibody is present in thousands of times more people that do not exhibit AIDS than do.
Their solution to that dilemma is to push death dealing “AIDS” drugs down their throats until they die.
>> “I caught a glimpse of some TV show last night saying that the infant does in fact have dead RNA and DNA from HIV in her body” <<
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That comment is a flat out lie.
The DNA and RNA of “HIV” are unknown, because no virus has ever been isolated to test.
Then why is it classified a virus?
You’re asking the wrong question, since there is to this day no virus to classify. Those that seek to expose this fact are instantly attacked and destroyed.
“HIV” the virus is fiction. what they call an antibody to this imaginary virus has never been shown to cause the disease. No person with this supposed antibody that doesn’t use drugs gets the symptoms, while there are millions that have the symptoms of AIDS, but do not have the ‘antibody.’ (but they do use drugs)
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