Salehdin
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![[*]](./images/Pinky/default_icon.gif) posted on 6.8.2012 at 11:52 AM |
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Man Cured of AIDS: ‘I Feel Good’
The fact that Timothy Brown is a reasonably healthy 46-year-old is no small thing. Only a few years ago, he had AIDS.
“I feel good,” Brown told ABC News. “I haven’t had any major illnesses, just occasional colds like normal people.”
Brown is the only person in the world to be cured of AIDS, the result of a transplant of blood stem cells he received to treat leukemia.
“My case is the proof in concept that HIV can be cured,” he said.
Brown got lucky. The blood stem cells he received came from a donor with a special genetic mutation that made him resistant to HIV. The genetic
mutation occurs in less than 1 percent of Caucasians, and far less frequently in people of other races. Before Brown got his transplant in 2007,
doctors tested nearly 70 donors for this genetic mutation before they found one who was a match.
But doctors hope that a similar solution could help other people with HIV: umbilical cord blood transplants.
Dr. Lawrence Petz, medical director of StemCyte, an umbilical cord blood bank, said although Brown was cured by his transplant, the process was
complicated because the blood stem cells came from an adult donor.
“When you do that you have to have a very close match between donor and recipient,” Petz said. “With umbilical cord blood, we don’t need such a close
match. It’s far easier to find donor matches.”
But it’s still not that easy. Petz and his colleagues have tested 17,000 samples of cord blood so far, and found just 102 that have the genetic
HIV-resistant mutation. The team performed the first cord blood transplant on an HIV-infected patient a few weeks ago, and they have another
transplant planned for a similar patient in Madrid, Spain, later this year. It will still be months before researchers can tell if the transplants
have any effect on the patients’ HIV.
Petz also noted that transplants aren’t performed solely to treat AIDS. Patients who get them have an additional condition that requires a blood stem
cell transplant. Curing their AIDS would be an incredible bonus.
“It can be done. It’s just a matter of time,” Petz said.
Brown had his transplant in February 2007. Today, his body shows no signs of the virus.
Brown said he feels guilty being the only person to have been cured of the virus when millions still live with it. But he hopes his story will inspire
others that a cure is possible.
”I don’t want to be the only person in the world cured of HIV. I want a cure for everyone,” he said.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/06/08/man-cured-of-aids-i-feel-good/
Truth, Compassion, Forbearance
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“...if every one of us examines his own character for causes, if when we don’t do well we look inside ourselves for the cause, and we try to do better
next time, and if we think about other people first any time we do something, then the world will change for the better, morals will go back up,
people’s civility will improve, and crime will go down. Maybe we won’t even need policemen. There will be no need for things like neighborhood watch,
and everyone will watch over himself, and they’ll look inside their own minds to fix things. Wouldn’t you say that’d be great?”
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Salehdin
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| posted on 6.8.2012 at 11:52 AM |
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"The genetic mutation occurs in less than 1 percent of Caucasians, and far less frequently in people of other races."
Any thoughts on this line from the OP?
Truth, Compassion, Forbearance
http://www.falundafa.org
“...if every one of us examines his own character for causes, if when we don’t do well we look inside ourselves for the cause, and we try to do better
next time, and if we think about other people first any time we do something, then the world will change for the better, morals will go back up,
people’s civility will improve, and crime will go down. Maybe we won’t even need policemen. There will be no need for things like neighborhood watch,
and everyone will watch over himself, and they’ll look inside their own minds to fix things. Wouldn’t you say that’d be great?”
- Mr. Li Hongzhi (in Zhuan Falun) |
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BMFRU2
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| posted on 6.8.2012 at 08:08 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Salehdin
"The genetic mutation occurs in less than 1 percent of Caucasians, and far less frequently in people of other races."
Any thoughts on this line from the OP? |
So Cauc's passin on that wishful thinking that they'll B the last 1's standin. MFer PLEASE. They're a dying race.
And good riddins 2 em
I look around, and ALL I SEE IS STOOPID!!!
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Tea_Honey
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| posted on 6.9.2012 at 04:07 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BMFRU2
| Quote: | Originally posted by Salehdin
"The genetic mutation occurs in less than 1 percent of Caucasians, and far less frequently in people of other races."
Any thoughts on this line from the OP? |
So Cauc's passin on that wishful thinking that they'll B the last 1's standin. MFer PLEASE. They're a dying race.
And good riddins 2 em |
LOL! 
At any rate, I posted this same info about the cure for AIDS last year:
http://www.cocoalounge.org/viewthread.php?tid=56957&page=1#pid664747
Out of Love, you can speak with straight fury
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it
Choose your hypnotist well.....
Ergo, the blue pill (illusion), or the red pill (reality)
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BMFRU2
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| posted on 6.10.2012 at 04:27 PM |
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A sure fire way 2 cure AIDs is NOT getting it in the first place. Know Ur partners, get tested, get Ur freak on with ONLY THAT PATNER. And when I
mean get Ur freak on, I mean whatever U can the on the table, I can square it.
I look around, and ALL I SEE IS STOOPID!!!
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grrlie
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| posted on 6.12.2012 at 06:48 PM |
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I think is good news, regardless of the dudes color. 
I wonder where they get the cord blood?
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Tea_Honey
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| posted on 6.12.2012 at 08:05 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BMFRU2
| Quote: | Originally posted by Salehdin
"The genetic mutation occurs in less than 1 percent of Caucasians, and far less frequently in people of other races."
Any thoughts on this line from the OP? |
So Cauc's passin on that wishful thinking that they'll B the last 1's standin. MFer PLEASE. They're a dying race.
And good riddins 2 em |
I thought that's what you said.
Oh, and regardless of the race of the "recipient" (talking about PEOPLE, not one "person"), I agree with your assessment, 1000%! 
Out of Love, you can speak with straight fury
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it
Choose your hypnotist well.....
Ergo, the blue pill (illusion), or the red pill (reality)
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