Yes a 42yrold man who lived with AIDS for over 20yrs has seen his AIDS disappear with a bone marrow trasplant performed on him. Some are saying it is a fluke and needs to be more closely studied and others are holding out that this may be what many were waiting for. Supposidly there is a gene some humans hold that is resistant to hiv and Aids. And this is the marrow he found a match on and that was supplied to him.
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redryder said on Nov 13, 2008....
I hope this will lead to a breakthrough we all have been praying for. -
SeanRenaud said on Nov 13, 2008....
I consider myself skeptical on this. Can you at least find the link back to the story? I mean we have Andora claiming that the cure for AIDS is a vibrator set to ten.
Hopefully this is the breakthrough but it seems unlikely that we've never tried a marrow transplant, which could just mean there is something special about this marrow. I would be very interested in studying both the donor and the reciever as well as all the processes involved.
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completemishap said on Nov 13, 2008....
i hope this is real...i dont want to die -
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husbandhater said on Nov 16, 2008....
Sean it was in the N.Y.Times and on all of the news channels. I thought you lived in California? I know Good Morning America gets some play out there and even they did a blip on it. supposidly there are some who carry a gene in them that is resistant to HIV or can tear it down and stop it from replicating which is what the disease does. The individual who gave him the bone marrow had this gene. The man suffured from Lukemia.What they did is take him off all the cocktails and strip him of his immunity. From what they say this can be dangerous and they are trying to study how to do this without killing some b/c if you strip people of their immunity to fight off disease especially Aids patients you can kill them. They then did the transplant and have been studying him. Supposidly he hasn't been on the cocktail in over a year. Aids advocates say they aren't proforming the proper tests. And while this certainly could be the case(as we've seen when we had to revise the tests after an undetectable strain came up) God I hope we are on to something here.I think in us lies the answer to most of our medical problems. It's just a matter of finding the right peice to the puzzle so to speak. The cure is out there I beleive it's just a matter of us putting the puzzle together by finding the right peices that can give us the whole picture. My God look at what we accomplished in the 20th century. The 21st promises to reveal much more to us. -
SeanRenaud said on Nov 16, 2008....
I do hope this is something right I just find this to be highly skeptical. Something just doesn't smell right because this is too fucking simple and it's hard to believe that nobody ever stumbled over this before.
I don't see how taking away an AIDS patient's ability to fight disease would be any more dangerous than doing so to a normal person. Infact is nothing else it should be less dangerous as they have access to better drugs and shit. So that part I kinda ignore on principle.
My instinct is that something is wrong here but that doesn't mean that we haven't gotten lucky and stumbled on something here. There is also the important part to factor in.
Still with any lucky this is it, it just doesn't seem likely.
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husbandhater said on Nov 17, 2008....
Sean the guy had was Hiv+ for over 20yrs from my understanding. And although the AIDS patient has access to better drugs(which they are taken off of) and shit stripping thier immunity to fight disease when their bodies is already in shock from constantly fighting with the virus can very well kill seeing that their immune system is already compromised and that the drugs used to help their system are taken away.
Hopefully they didn't just create another undetectable strain.
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SeanRenaud said on Nov 17, 2008....
I dobu tthey created an undetectable strain. HIV is pretty hard to hide anyway usualy we detect a disease by discovering anti-bodies for it. An HIV virus that didn't create anti-bodies would still cause a depleted white blood cell count (T-cells specifically if I recall properly)
While I don't have a link to this story HH he wouldn't be the first person to miraculously be cured. Hopefully this is the thing. I'm just saying this doesn't pass my initial sniff test. The initial whiff screams either bs or lucky coincidence. I could be (and hopefully am) wrong.