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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Mon Dec 10, 2012, 11:33 PM Dec 2012

Maybe...just maybe...HIV is a blessing...finally

Doctors have used an experimental treatment involving the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to combat a six year olds leukaemia.
The treatment involved using a disabled form of the virus to reprogram the child's immune system to attack the cancer cells.
Seven months later, the little girl is in complete remission.

Read more here: http://nyti.ms/UubeWY

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Maybe...just maybe...HIV is a blessing...finally (Original Post) Playinghardball Dec 2012 OP

My God,that is incredible. I know 2 young people who died virgogal Dec 2012 #1

virgogal

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1. My God,that is incredible. I know 2 young people who died

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Mon Dec 10, 2012, 11:40 PM

Dec 2012

of leukemia(both in their 20s).

This treatment is certainly encouraging.

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