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Study confirms HIV incurable
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admin on 03/08/2010 00:49:00
 
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