Third patient ‘functionally cured’ of HIV after successful bone marrow transplant
This marks the third person in the world to have been 'cured' of the virus
By Steve Brown
A third HIV-positive patient has been ‘functionally cured’ of the virus.
Earlier this week, it was reported that a HIV-positive man – known only as the ‘London patient’ – was in remission after doctors were unable to find any trace of the virus after he underwent a bone marrow transplant for a cancer diagnosis.
The patient was the second in the world to have been ‘cured’ of the virus but now the New Scientist has reported that a third man, who has been of antiretroviral drugs for three months, also shows no signs of the virus after undergoing a bone marrow transplant from a donor with a gene mutation.
Known as the ‘Dusseldorf patient’, the results were announced by Annemarie Wensing of University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands who worked with the patient.