Timothy Ray Brown a 45 year old former HIV-AIDS sufferer known as the ‘Berlin Patient’, continues to astound medical researchers after four years from having undertaken an innovative medical procedure in Berlin Germany, he has no trace of the virus that infected his body for 15 years from when first diagnosed and ultimately led to Leukemia. Brown was given an experimental bone marrow transplant with cells containing unusual variants of cell surface receptors known as CCR5. People born naturally with this receptor are resistant to infection and some strains of the HIV-AIDS. Brown stopped taking antiretroviral medications after the transplant, now after four years there are still no traces of the virus confirming his cure. “I quit taking my HIV medication the day that I got the transplant”.

 

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