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First Man Cured of HIV Infection Now has Terminal Cancer – EDGE Media Network
Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to have been cured of HIV infection, says he is now terminally ill from a recurrence of the cancer that prompted his historic treatment 12 years ago.
Timothy Ray Brown with his dog, Jack, on Treasure Island in San Francisco. (Source:AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Timothy Ray Brown, the first person known to have been cured of HIV infection, says he is now terminally ill from a recurrence of the cancer that prompted his historic treatment 12 years ago.
Brown, dubbed “the Berlin patient” because of where he lived at the time, had a transplant from a donor with a rare, natural resistance to the AIDS virus. For years, that was thought to have cured hi…
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