After a decade, a second case of HIV-1 virus remission has been announced by a team of researcher headed by Prof. Ravindra Gupta of Cambridge University as proof that the deadly HIV-1 virus causing AIDS could be beaten. For the second time ever, an HIV-positive man in Britain has been cleared of the deadly disease, after he received a bone-marrow transplant from a HIV-resistant donor.
It has been 10 years almost to the day since the first case of an HIV-infected person was confirmed to be rid of the deadly disease, a man popularly named as “London patient”, who had advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma, has shown no sign of the virus after almost 3 years of receiving bone marrow stem cells and coming off antiretroviral drugs for closely 19 months, according to reports in the journal Nature. “It is a landmark occurrence. After 10 years of not being able to replicate (the first case), people were…
