Strong medicine may have rid a newborn of deadly HIV
By Stephen Ornes
Web edition: March 18, 2013
This photo shows HIV infecting a T-cell, which usually fights off infections in the human body.
Credit: NIH/NIAID
A toddler in Mississippi has just made history. Doctors report that a combination of medicines appears to have cured the child of a deadly virus. The girl was born with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. If her infection doesn?t return, researchers say this would be the first known case where drugs wiped out HIV.
Visit the new?Science News for Kids?website?and read the full story:?The AIDS virus that vanished
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349017/title/FOR_KIDS_The_AIDS_virus_that_vanished
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