British man 'recovered from HIV'

[xen0n]

Yeah. Did read this article from ST. Was thinking along these lines:

1) His 1st checkup was flawed.
2) He DID recovered from HIV +ve to HIV -ve.

Anyway, he has agreed to allow research to be done on him so as to help others. So that isn't so bad if (2) was true.

[excm69]

Originally Posted by Shaun_G

Think of the millions of ppl that can be saved if the vaccine can be found plus no need to worry abt HIV anymore. hahha. more bonking!

Yah, if true can say bye bye to HIV, but hoh there are still other STDs to worry about!!

Be safe, always use condoms for commercial sex, ONS....

[smlee]

Originally Posted by siamcutey

Since he is "invincible", will doctors inject him with the HIV virus again?

hehehe
SC

good one
moreover he is British who is notorious for bullshitting

[JPimp]

Disagree on the brits being bullshiters....though I am skeptical on a cure for HIV...I mean scientist have been looking at the cure for cancer for ages to no avail

[FL_Noob]

Prevention is still better than cure.

[Aviator]

Saw the taiwanese news yesterday apparently there was also another baby born with Hiv but2-3 years down the road, he was completely cured as well. maybe the cure is lock within us??

[smlee]

Originally Posted by JPimp

Disagree on the brits being bullshiters....though I am skeptical on a cure for HIV...I mean scientist have been looking at the cure for cancer for ages to no avail

you are a brits just joking

[dt3305]

I strongly believed a cure for HIV will be found soon. Either a vaccine or anti-biotic to destroy the HIV virus. These 2 recent case is interesting read and I want to believe. Some how I think our human body is a fantastic creation. In times to come, our body will develop a response to whatever new virus there is. HIV has been around for ages and so has our body DNA which continues to evolve. One day it will defeat the virus. Until then, bonk safe, always with condom and good quality condom at that. Do not mix alcohol with sex...it is a dangerous cocktail...you tend to do things you normally would not do...

[ksd07]

If you do a search on google, regarding prostitues in Nairobi and Kenya who had unprotected sex with HIV infected clients and subsequently got the HIv virus,

they continued their prostitution and a few months later the virus was completely gone.

Now some of them stopped prostitution after finding out they were free from the virus and a few months later , the virus came back to them again.

So the Key issue now with this Gay man HIV case is this,

Can he still be clear of HIV provided he does not continue his lifestyle with his infected Gay partner, thus preventing continual exposure to the virus.

If he can, then there is a high hope for a cure.

This is because some scientists believe that once a person is infected with HIV, he might have to continue exposing himself to the virus in order to allow the body to develop a resistence.

[F2828]

We do not know whether is it true or not until this guy comes out and let the authority do a detailed check-up. Let's wait for further news before any conclusion.

[FL_Noob]

Lets hope the cure comes out as soon as possible so that everyone on this planet don't have to worry about losing their lifes to sex.

[ksd07]

Originally Posted by F2828

We do not know whether is it true or not until this guy comes out and let the authority do a detailed check-up. Let's wait for further news before any conclusion.

I was not drawing any conclusion, merely stating a possible scenario.

Hi all,

First off, this man may have produced antibodies that actually managed to destroy the virus. When HIV enters the human body, antibodies are made against the virus but for some reason they don't work. While these antibodies help us test for the virus itself, it is of little use against the virus. What could have happened is, this guy was lucky enough that the antibodies made was somehow the "correct" one which killed the virus.

Now it holds hope in the sense that scientists could do some research to now find out how to make our bodies produce the "killing" antibody. But it's not as simple as just taking this guy's antibodies and growing them and injecting them into other people. Our bodies will recognise those antibodies injected as "foreign" and may produce antibodies against the injected antibodies, making it useless. Follow so far?

So it is not really an opportunity to produce vaccines or cures. This guy may lock the secret door to the correct antibody production or he may just be a very lucky guy (more likely). Chances are we do not have his antibody producing gene.