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worlexy(m): 11:54pm On Jul 11, 2014
The Mississippi baby who had been
"functionally cured" of her HIV infection now
has detectable levels of virus. It's a sad turn
of events, but not necessarily a surprising
one.
You can read more about the Mississippi
case in Popular Science's 2013 explainer. In
short, the baby received an aggressive
course of standard anti-retroviral treatment
just 30 hours after she was born. Then,
because her mother stopped bringing her to
the doctor, she didn't get treated for a few
months. Yet once doctors saw her again,
they found no evidence that HIV was
replicating in her blood—an unprecedented
result. So researchers began hoping that
perhaps aggressive early treatment could
help other babies born with HIV. They set up
a clinical trial to test this.
At the same time, the Mississippi baby's
doctors did find fragments of HIV DNA in her
blood, a sign that she could still be infected.
Commentators warned how unlikely it
was this was a true, lifelong cure. Surely the
girl's doctors knew this, too. It was a watch-
and-wait situation, but everyone was
hopeful.
Now, the girl is almost four years old and
she's having "an unequivocal relapse" with
significant numbers of virus in her blood, as
AIDS expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told the New
York Times. Her caretakers can still manage
the virus with anti-retrovirals, but if her
infection is like others' and HIV treatments
don't improve, she'll take those drugs for the
rest of her life. That's not a terrible fate—
many folks in the U.S. live with HIV—but it
has its challenges.
Researchers will now reconsider how they'll
run the clinical trial they set up for other
babies born with HIV, the New York Times
reports.

Source: www.popsci.com/article/science/baby-who-beat-hiv-months-no-longer-remission?src=SOC&dom=fb

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Onlinebizexpert(m): 12:00am On Jul 12, 2014
there is hope

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worlexy(m): 12:03am On Jul 12, 2014
Onlinebizexpert: there is hope
yeah. It means we will soon get there. Soon, the definite cure will be found

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kbshow100(m): 6:06am On Jul 12, 2014
If HIV get cure, a very big Gbege go dey, it will put some people out of business(oyinbo) and fornication will be high increase(ashawo). Anyway I wish girl all the best

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Smartsyn(m): 6:06am On Jul 12, 2014
We're almost there..




But why should this poor lad suffer for what she know nothing of... denying her the choice to dictate how she want her life to be.

Life could be cruel sometimes.

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slyzy(m): 6:08am On Jul 12, 2014
just as it was with gonorrhea, one day its cure will surface

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tonididdy(m): 6:09am On Jul 12, 2014
Aw so sad JUST WHEN IT SEEMED ALL was WELL
bitterpenis(m): 6:09am On Jul 12, 2014
Failed experiment
Re: Baby Who Had Been "Cured" Of HIV Now Has The Virus Resurfacing by Nobody: 6:09am On Jul 12, 2014
Nigerian girls you can see HIV has no cure

That thing you are doing because of Brazilian hair

You will soon die!!

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tinuolababy(f): 6:10am On Jul 12, 2014
worlexy: yeah. It means we will soon get there. Soon, the definite cure will be found

I believe

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Hackerjay(m): 6:11am On Jul 12, 2014
Chai, make another research commence for the real cure... Abi the baby own nah extra-ordinary?

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tonididdy(m): 6:12am On Jul 12, 2014
Where do this viruses come from?...now sweeping westafrica and God forbid ghana or Nigeria is the NOmerciful Ebola virus...yikes jesu lahor oh !

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justi4jesu(f): 6:12am On Jul 12, 2014
Sad news sad
zolajpower: 6:12am On Jul 12, 2014
Just pray she doesnt hv to live with tht 4d rest of her life. "Sins of d parents"

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shortgun(m): 6:12am On Jul 12, 2014
This story initially gave hope to HIV infected people around the world that a cure is around the corner, now this.
Re: Baby Who Had Been "Cured" Of HIV Now Has The Virus Resurfacing by Nobody: 6:12am On Jul 12, 2014
worlexy: yeah. It means we will soon get there. Soon, the definite cure will be found

You sound hiv positive lipsrsealed lipsrsealed

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Prowizy2(m): 6:13am On Jul 12, 2014
I can't wait for CD to loss its value
Re: Baby Who Had Been "Cured" Of HIV Now Has The Virus Resurfacing by Nobody: 6:13am On Jul 12, 2014
O Crap! This is Sad news. sad
Yoney007(f): 6:14am On Jul 12, 2014
If its "resurfacing" that means it wasn't "cured" before.

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youngice(m): 6:14am On Jul 12, 2014
eyah
Gigateem(m): 6:16am On Jul 12, 2014
It's a pity some people have little or no choice about what lead to their predicaments.... I pray God grant science breakthrough on this menace called HIV!

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jiddodo: 6:17am On Jul 12, 2014
Hackerjay: Chai, make another research commence for the real cure


It has been undergoing ever since the disease appeared. Let's jst hope we get there soonest. For every disease there is a cure only dat it takes a while to be discovered.
priscaoge(f): 6:26am On Jul 12, 2014
There is hope! I believe someday d world will be free from this deadly HIV


I feel 4 d little baby!

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overhypedsteve(m): 6:27am On Jul 12, 2014
Those doctors should be sacked, when their colleagues were busy enjoying the medical strike, they wete busy going about scaring a young girl with HIV
aaidel(m): 6:28am On Jul 12, 2014
Yungwizzzy: [size=45pt]Nigerian girls you can see HIV has no cure

That thing you are doing because of Brazilian hair

You will soon die!! [/size]

and i guess you will live forever since you are negative smh

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hydeka: 6:28am On Jul 12, 2014
In order to completely eradicate HIV from an infected patient, it will require complete inhibition of viral replication in all cell lines and body stores where the virus resides. But the problem is that some cell lines have shorter half-lives than others and some long infected T-cells with half-lives lasting more than 6 to 44 months have been identified hence this may require complete suppression of the virus for about 60 years or more. Another problem is that the virus resides in sites that achieve low antiretroviral concentrations such as the central nervous system. So once therapy is discontinued, these sites theoretically release unaffected virions and re-populate the host. Nevertheless, we keep hope alive. One day the breakthrough will come.

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Andrew3(m): 6:29am On Jul 12, 2014
tongue
dhtml(m): 6:30am On Jul 12, 2014
Na wa o
hrmkz: 6:32am On Jul 12, 2014
Lord God.
Re: Baby Who Had Been "Cured" Of HIV Now Has The Virus Resurfacing by Nobody: 6:33am On Jul 12, 2014
very soon i fit nyash any babe without that yeye rubber angry angry angry

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lummiedee: 6:34am On Jul 12, 2014
All is well

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