7-year-old’s leukaemia ‘killed’ with form of HIV

US doctors say they have saved a seven-year-old girl who was close to dying from leukaemia by pioneering the use of a modified form of the HIV virus.

After fighting her disease with chemotherapy for almost two years and suffering two relapses, the young girl “faced grim prospects”, doctors at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia said.

So in February they agreed to take her on in an experimental programme that fought fire with fire.