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Study confirms HIV incurable

03/08/2010 00:49:00 admin

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It's been known for long that a HIV patient can use a combination of antivirals to eliminate HIV, but the patient will never be free of AIDS. Now a study finds the difficulty is that the virus can hide in certain types of bone marrow cells.

Dr. Kathleen Collins, an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan and colleagues tested bits of AIDS virus and cells from people infected with HIV in their laboratory and found the HIV hiding place.

The researchers say the HIV virus that hides in the parents or progenitors of blood cells may reawaken under certain circumstances and strike the patients or even kill them.

The study was published in the March 7 online edition of Nature Medicine.

By Jimmy Downs

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Comments (6 posted):

Adam on 03/08/2010 01:09:34

Wow ... incurable, huh? Perhaps you should do more research before publishing such a blanket statement. Other articles have simply stated that while this is discouraging, it is a step forward into learning how to combat the deadly disease. The more we learn about something like HIV and AIDS, the closer we get to finding a cure, even if we see how much we will have to endure to win that race.

Liz on 03/08/2010 01:12:22

This is a very shoddy summary.

First off, it seems to equate HIV with AIDS. HIV causes AIDS but having HIV does not mean that one has AIDS. So, yes, one can theoretically be free of AIDS and still have HIV.

Also, the study did not confirm that HIV is incurable as in the sense that it will never be curable, which the title seems to suggest, only that we have still not found a cure. That not exactly news, unless I missed the big announcement that a cure to HIV had been found.

Sal Weinburg on 03/08/2010 01:13:28

We have a long way to go still, but I agree with the Adam, to simply right the disease off as something that cannot be cured is simply premature

on 03/08/2010 01:19:04

No, I disagree with these other comments. Clearly FoodConsumer.org is the authority on medical science for all time. I'll make sure to forward this article to my colleagues worldwide to tell them to suspend their research. They'll sure be disappointed. What a waste of time to put all that energy into an MD, and now this ...

Max on 03/08/2010 01:20:17

This is the worst article I have ever read. Sorry, Jimmy Downs. Try doing some friggin research next time. Maybe learn about your subject first? Is that a novel idea? How the H did this get to the google news front page?

pozlove on 03/12/2010 07:19:36

HIV case is on the rise!!

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