British man 'recovered from HIV'

The Dude · #1 November 13th, 2005, 05:26 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4432564.stm

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Doctors are planning further tests on a British man whose body has reportedly cured itself of HIV.

Two Sunday newspapers report that Andrew Stimpson, 25 from London, was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 2002 but found to be clear in October 2003. [more]

Praise god!!!!!!!!!!!

Pi rules · #2 November 13th, 2005, 06:01 PM

Hopefully (if this is real and there were no mistakes) this can be used to help find a cure for HIV and AIDS.

oracle128 · #3 November 13th, 2005, 06:01 PM

Don't mean to be a spoilsport, but chances are either the initial diagnosis was wrong, or the new one is. Of course, there's nobody out there that doesn't want this to be true, but more than 99% of the time things like this get reported, it turns out they were either mistakes, or there were extreme circumstances surrounding the 'miracle cure'.

**Snurfen** · #4 November 13th, 2005, 10:47 PM

Well if it is true, that's one of the best jokes in the world spoiled.

("...............oh yeah, and I'm not too keen to catch that AIDS again either")

I'm a bit sceptical about the article. Be a big relief if it was borne out though.

**Tom** · #5 November 14th, 2005, 02:30 AM

I've worked with AIDS victims, and at times buried them in our public cemetary when they had no family or the family was too poor (at that time, not even a headstone - only a metal location disc nearby with coordinates). The misery it brings to daily life is nearly unfathomable. The weakened immune system failing to ward of so many terrible and bizarre opportunistic diseases. Hopefully this guy will remember the fear he felt when he was told he was infected, and make a move to be part of the solution.

The Dude · #6 November 14th, 2005, 02:32 AM

I heard he was gonna sue this hospital for saying he had it when he didnt..

Heh,he should just be glad he doesnt have it anymore!!

Ah well

oracle128 · #7 November 14th, 2005, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by The Dude

I heard he was gonna sue this hospital for saying he had it when he didnt..

Heh,he should just be glad he doesnt have it anymore!!

Ah well

Seems like the great American culture (of suing anyone and everyone) is spreading as far as Britain; now THAT'S a disease I'd like to see removed.

Nick Grana · #8 November 14th, 2005, 05:28 PM

This would be a great thing. But why the reluctance of the man to help in finding out why? Surely helping with the research couldn't be as frightening as thinking you had the virus for 2 years. He could be in the history books as the person who helped cure this dreaded disease. Why? Only he knows.

Like cancer, and other presently incurable diseases, there are ups and downs. If a cancer is in remission for 5 years, the possibility of return is minimal. That's what they told my son and I. After 10 years in remission, we were told that it would not return. After 11 years, it returned, another operation did not help and he died in my arms 2 years later. The loss of quality of life was most unbearable. He took it like a man. He took it better than I could have ever thought to do. At the end, he wanted his organs transplanted, if possible, for someone to use. He wanted to help someone else in spite of the suffering he went through. If I could be half that.

It's going to take some kind of luck, as this cured man, to help isolate the ingredients to this bug. Did he have it? Did it disappear? Why does he not help?
"I think I'm one of the luckiest people alive."
So sue the hospital and doctors and screw the rest of the world.
I still hope you remain healthy if you indeed had it to start with.

oracle128 · #9 November 14th, 2005, 06:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Nick Grana

This would be a great thing. But why the reluctance of the man to help in finding out why? Surely helping with the research couldn't be as frightening as thinking you had the virus for 2 years. He could be in the history books as the person who helped cure this dreaded disease. Why? Only he knows.

I believe he's holding back from further study because of the civil case he's pursuing; preservation of evidence and such, I imagine. In otherwords, he wants his money before he'll give us his cure to HIV, greedy *******. <-- 'b' word, rhymes with 'plastered'.

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Originally Posted by Nick

So sue the hospital and doctors and screw the rest of the world.
I still hope you remain healthy if you indeed had it to start with.

Luckily, from what I know of immunology (a fellow Aussie won a Nobel Prize for it, so that makes me plently qualified), the cure would stay in his immune system for the rest of his life, assuming it is infact there; as such, I too would like to hope he remains healthy...at least until we get what we need from his blood.