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London - Scientists seeking a cure for Aids say they have been inspired, not crushed, by a major setback in which two HIV positive patients believed to have been cured found the virus re-invading their bodies once more.
True, the news hit hard last month that the so-called “Boston patients” - two men who received bone marrow transplants that appeared to rid them completely of the Aids-causing virus - had relapsed and gone back onto antiretroviral treatment.
There was never a cure for AIDS. Like cancer, there became a time when remission could last for more than a few months, but AIDS was never cured.
I tend to believe that if a single cure for cancer is ever found, the same, or very similar, cure will also cure AIDS. I also believe a person's individual genetic make-up plays a larger part than we realize now.
But until then, nothing is guaranteed for either disease. Viruses are damned good at survival. Remember that the virus was attacked by the medical industry heavily on all fronts, and a lot of people died before it was learned that a combination of drugs was the only effective way to cause remission. With AIDS, 3 drugs are the combo. Each has a weakness, so there are 3 times more opportunities for the virus to find a way to get around the remission barrier.
Also remember that AIDS has abilities no other virus has. That's why it took as long as it did for effective treatment to develop.
Hetero AIDS actually is the most common world-wide. That is the damnable problem with AIDS, and one of the disease's hardest things to attack.
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