By using blood transplant from the unbilical cords of individuals with a genetic resistance to HIV. Spanish medical proffessionals bellieve they can treat the virus having proven the procedure successful with a petient.
A 37 year old man from Barcelona who was infected with HIV virus in 2009 was cured of the virus after receiving a blood transplant.
While unfortunatly the man died of cancer just 3 years later having developed lymphoma.
The Spanish medical team still believe they have gotten a breakthrough to the deadly virus, according to the Spanish news source El Mundo.
Doctores in Barcelona has initially cured a man with HIV virus also suffering from leukemia using the procedent of Timothy Brown. The petient was given a bone marrow from a donor who carried the same resistance mutation from HIV. After the cancer treatment the HIV virus had also disappeared.
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