A baby from Mississippi was born with a retrovirus called HIV or human immunodeficiency virus. Two years later, the child appears to be cured.
HIV is a serious infection that involves the breaking down of the body’s immune system. This virus causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This is a fatal infection which later leads to death.
This disease is not an air-born; it can only be transmitted through unprotected sex, sharing of infected needles, infected blood products, and child birth.
HIV cannot be spread through air, water, insect bites, saliva, sweat, tears, or casual contact.
When doctors discovered this baby was infected with the disease they quickly took action in attempts to cure the baby.
She received three HIV drugs instead of the one usual drug when she was just 30-hours old. This dose of HIV drugs appeared to have blasted the HIV virus into remission which prevented it from expanding in the baby’s T-cells.
Now two years later the girl has gone through a series of blood tests showing no signs the HIV virus present anywhere in the blood, this is also known as a “functional cure” according to (Dr. Hannah Gay HIV specialist).
Shanna Carson • Mar 5, 2013 at 3:26 pm
Skeptics said that this story of the cure child is not really conclusive. They say that the baby – although at high risk for contracting the virus from her mother – was not actually infected herself. This story shows no actual proof that the baby girl was indeed born with HIV. On the other hand it mentions that the girl, being at high risk of infection, was placed on treatment even before laboratory investigations had been done. That being said, doctors agree that the child was most likely infected, so it remains a story of hope 🙂