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Scientists say a woman is cured of HIV despite having no medical interventions – Business Insider Australia
A 66-year-old woman who contracted HIV in 1992 could be the first person to be cured of the autoimmune disease without medication or a bone marrow transplant, reported researchers.
- Loreen Willenburg, 66, may be the first person to have been cured of HIV without a bone marrow transplant or medication, according to a new study.
- Willenburg was already known as an “elite controller” – among the less than 0.5% of people with HIV whose body naturally does the job of antiviral drugs: suppresses the virus so it cannot replicate.
- The study, published last night in Nature, found that Willenburg now has no trace of the virus in her DNA.
- “It…
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