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It felt very much like a punch to the gut,” said Dr. Hannah B. Gay, a pediatric HIV specialist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center who treats the girl. “It was disappointing from the scientific standpoint because we had been hopeful it would lead to bigger and better things, but mainly for the sake of the child who is back on medicine and expected to remain on medicine for a very long time.”
"HIV hides in so-called reservoirs of the body, and the viral material there often remains dormant as long as a patient is receiving antiretroviral drugs. But as soon as the drugs are stopped, the viral strains can become active and replicate in the body." (
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5 comments:
That is bad news. HIV is still a very bad disease.
A virus is very uncomplicated which means there isn't much we can fuck with.
Self preservation is a hell of a thing.
Not for nothing are they called retroviruses. They are very difficult to defeat.
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