Interview With The Berlin Patient - Man Cured of Aids

submitted by Ryjkyj
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From ibtimes.com:

Timothy Ray Brown, 45, who tested positive for HIV in 1995, has appeared in a new interview proclaiming he is cured of HIV, several months after the December study published in scientific journal Blood which said Brown had exhibited “evidence for the cure of HIV infection.”

“I’m cured of HIV. I had HIV but I don’t anymore,” Brown, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area said in an interview with CBS 5 aired on Monday.

Brown lived in Berlin, Germany in 2007, and had HIV and Leukemia. Scientists gave him a bone marrow stem cell transplant.

He says he has not had to take HIV medication since that time. The Leukemia did come back about a year later, so he got a transplant from the same initial donor in February of 2008. Both HIV and Leukemia have not returned, he says.

8 Comments

Ryjkyjsays...

>> ^Kofi:

Has claimed .... has claimed ... has claimed


I realize that it is still very early in this case, and that a working cure for AIDS has not yet been found. But the word "claimed" is never said in this video at all, by anyone, so I'm curious where you're getting that from? Could it be that you're having a knee-jerk reaction because all the "cure" claims for so many other afflictions that float around the internet? Although this is only one case, the news is still huge.

bcglorfsays...

>> ^Ryjkyj:

>> ^Kofi:
Has claimed .... has claimed ... has claimed

I realize that it is still very early in this case, and that a working cure for AIDS has not yet been found. But the word "claimed" is never said in this video at all, by anyone, so I'm curious where you're getting that from? Could it be that you're having a knee-jerk reaction because all the "cure" claims for so many other afflictions that float around the internet? Although this is only one case, the news is still huge.


It really is a cure, not just claimed. The catch is the kind of complete marrow transplant he underwent has a ridiculously high mortality rate. In point of fact, for most patients, their survivability is much, much better just staying on standard HIV treatments, even if it means never being fully cured.

Kofisays...

"He says ... " = he claimed.

Until there is a peer reviewed article in a medical journal there is no reason to believe this. This kind of claim needs thorough examination if it is to be taken seriously as it has major ramifications.

Kofisays...

My apologies. I did not read the description adequately. That journal article is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for an it was mentioned in the vid description. I am just a cynical old fart at times and hate hearing things about "miracle" type cures (not that they mentioned miracles). Once again, comments retracted.

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