{"id":130679,"date":"2021-11-16T04:22:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/scientists-report-finding-a-second-person-naturally-cured-of-hiv"},"modified":"2021-11-16T04:22:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:22:16","slug":"scientists-report-finding-a-second-person-naturally-cured-of-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/scientists-report-finding-a-second-person-naturally-cured-of-hiv","title":{"rendered":"Scientists report finding a second person \u2018naturally\u2019 cured of HIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-report-finding-a-second-person-naturally-cured-of-hiv2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the scientists<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acpjournals.org\/doi\/10.7326\/L21-0297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> reported<\/a> Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine, they didn\u2019t find any. Which means that the woman, who they are calling the \u201cEsperanza Patient\u201d to protect her privacy, appears to have eradicated the deadly virus from her body without the help of drugs or a bone marrow transplant \u2014 which would make her only the second person believed to have cured herself of HIV, without drugs or any other treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis gives us hope that the human immune system is powerful enough to control HIV and eliminate all the functional virus,\u201d said Xu Yu, an immunologist at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard and senior author on the new report. \u201cTime will tell, but we believe she has reached a sterilizing cure.\u201d The discovery, which was previously announced at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in March, could help identify possible treatments, researchers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the scientists reported Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine, they didn\u2019t find any. Which means that the woman, who they are calling the \u201cEsperanza Patient\u201d to protect her privacy, appears to have eradicated the deadly virus from her body without the help of drugs or a bone marrow transplant \u2014 which would make her [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}