[HN Gopher] 60-year-old German man likely seventh person to be e...
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       60-year-old German man likely seventh person to be effectively
       cured from HIV
        
       Author : belter
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2024-07-18 19:54 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | init2null wrote:
       | A 10% risk of death of a massive gamble compared to the
       | alternatives. I can only hope this leads to a more useful
       | solution than immune system replacement. I expect many would
       | prefer a life of daily medication, or even shots every few
       | months, which looks to be a promising form of treatment.
        
         | jfengel wrote:
         | In this case there are no alternatives, because the patients
         | have leukemia as well as HIV.
         | 
         | For most people the current regimens for treating HIV are
         | excellent. They can get the viral load down to undetectable
         | levels, which makes it impossible to transmit. And the side
         | effects are minimal.
        
       | jfengel wrote:
       | Too bad it's so drastic. There's also a huge problem with
       | autoimmune disorders, and it would be great to reboot them.
       | Unfortunately you basically have to be near dead from leukemia
       | before this procedure is reasonable.
        
       | nilsbunger wrote:
       | I wonder if they can evolve this into an autologous stem cell
       | transplant: take a patient's own bone marrow sample, do the
       | genetic mutation, and insert it back? It avoids the graft-versus-
       | host issues of using stem cells from another person, so it should
       | be reasonably safe (though still a major procedure)
        
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