Third person cured of HIV after stem cell transplant
A man known as "the Dusseldorf patient" has become the third person declared cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant that also treated his leukaemia.
The treatment involved using a genetically compatible bone marrow donor who had a specific and rare CCR5 mutation that occurs in just one percent of the population.
The recoveries of two other people with HIV and cancer following the same high-risk procedure were announced at different scientific conferences last year, though research has yet to be published on those cases.
Asier Saez-Cirion of France's Pasteur Institute told Newsday that the Dusseldorf patient is in "good health, happy and feeling very fortunate".
(Photo by: GILLES/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images).
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