Almost after 43 years of creation of several viruses and microbes at a Gene Engineering laboratory of the MIT university including an engineered DNA which later turned to be famous as H.I.V., also 34 years after the death of the heartthrob American movie artist (Rock Hudson on Oct. 2nd, 1985) due to complication of that American made virus, and finally 12 years after curing of the AIDS disease of a patient first named as the “Berlin patient” and now known as his actual name (Timothy Ray Brown), today the world informed of the 2nd patient that is cured out of the disease. The news is not related to the polymer industry, but as explained before for some news of the kind, the polymer industrialists are the human beings and its worth to be aware of some important news.
In April, 18th, 1977, an American magazine (name preferred to be hidden) printed a report, about new activities for “creation of a new life” mainly at MIT university. 8 years after publication of that report the death of “Rock Hudson” on Oct. 2nd 1985 due to complication of an (so called at the time) unknown virus named as AIDS headed the CEO of this publication (Mr. A. A. Saatnia) to the report published in 1977, and he claimed that this is an American made virus. Since then he has been following the AIDS and alike diseases that have been epidemic in the world by the US made viruses and microbes.
Now, and after 12 years of the curing of the illness of a carcinogenic German patient (Timothy Ray Brown- left photo) which had been hospitalized for the treatment of his cancer, having also complications of AIDS disease, it is announced that another patient so far called as “London patient” is cure of the HIV related illness after a bone-marrow transplant. According to several news published so far:
H.I.V. Is Reported Cured in a Second Patient, a Milestone in the Global AIDS Epidemic
Scientists have long tried to duplicate the procedure that led to the first long-term remission 12 years ago. With the so-called London patient, they seem to have succeeded.
For just the second time since the global epidemic began, a patient appears to have been cured of infection with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS.
The news comes nearly 12 years to the day after the first patient known to be cured, a feat that researchers have long tried, and failed, to duplicate. The surprise success now confirms that a cure for H.I.V. infection is possible, if difficult, researchers said.
The investigators are to publish their report on Tuesday in the journal Nature and to present some of the details at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Seattle.
Publicly, the scientists are describing the case as a long-term remission. In interviews, most experts are calling it a cure, with the caveat that it is hard to know how to define the word when there are only two known instances.
Both milestones resulted from bone-marrow transplants given to infected patients. But the transplants were intended to treat cancer in the patients, not H.I.V.
Bone-marrow transplantation is unlikely to be a realistic treatment option in the near future. Powerful drugs are now available to control H.I.V. infection, while the transplants are risky, with harsh side effects that can last for years.
But rearming the body with immune cells similarly modified to resist H.I.V. might well succeed as a practical treatment, experts said.
“This will inspire people that cure is not a dream,” said Dr. Annemarie Wensing, a virologist at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands. “It’s reachable.”
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Dr. Wensing is co-leader of IciStem, a consortium of European scientists studying stem cell transplants to treat H.I.V. infection. The consortium is supported by AMFAR, the American AIDS research organization.
The new patient has chosen to remain anonymous, and the scientists referred to him only as the “London patient.”
“I feel a sense of responsibility to help the doctors understand how it happened so they can develop the science,” he told The New York Times in an email.
Learning that he could be cured of both cancer and H.I.V. infection was “surreal” and “overwhelming,” he added. “I never thought that there would be a cure during my lifetime.”
At the same conference in 2007, a German doctor described the first such cure in the “Berlin patient,” later identified as Timothy Ray Brown, 52, who now lives in Palm Springs, Calif.
That news, displayed on a poster at the back of a conference room, initially gained little attention. Once it became clear that Mr. Brown was cured, scientists set out to duplicate his result with other cancer patients infected with H.I.V.
In case after case, the virus came roaring back, often around nine months after the patients stopped taking antiretroviral drugs, or else the patients died of cancer. The failures left scientists wondering whether Mr. Brown’s cure would remain a fluke.
Mr. Brown had had leukemia, and after chemotherapy failed to stop it, needed two bone-marrow transplants.
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