March 09, 2019
After 12 years from the first case in the world, another man appears to have been cured by HIV, the virus that causes the infamous AIDS illness.
According to the science magazine 'Nature', it is diagonally diagnosed with HIV in 2003.
To cure it in 2016, it underwent a transplant of stem cells that came from a man with genetic mutation that protects HIV and seems to have cured it from infection.
In both cases, patients to treat leukemia have been subjected to spinal cord transplantation, receiving donor stem cells with a rare genetic mutation resistant to HIV infection.
In the world, about 37 million people are positive about AIDS: the disease is only kept under control with the so-called "antiretroviral" (Arv) therapy.
But in many poor and developing countries, the virus is not cured and about 1 million people die each year from this disease.
