Doctors ‘cure’ baby born with HIV virus in Mississippi

13/03/03 8:52 PM ET Johns Hopkins Medicine / The Associated PressDr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins’ Children’s Center in Baltimore. A baby, born with the AIDS virus, appears to have been cured scientists announced on Sunday.   A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who’s now two-and-a-half-years-old and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.   There’s no guarantee the child will remain healthy, although sophisticated testing uncovered just traces of the virus’ genetic material still [...]

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