Bone marrow transplant may have cured man of Aids
While researchers — and the doctors themselves — caution that the case might be no more than a fluke, others say it may inspire a greater interest in gene therapy to fight the disease that claims two million lives each year. The virus has infected 33 million people worldwide.
Dr Gero Huetter said his 42-year-old patient, an American living in Berlin who was not identified, had been infected with the Aids virus for more than a decade. But 20 months after undergoing a transplant of genetically selected bone marrow, he no longer shows signs of carrying the virus.
