Take note of : The girl, who was born in April and is being referred to as the Los Angeles baby, remains on three standard HIV medications. Because of this, doctors cannot say for certain yet whether the infant is cured or whether the disease has gone into remission. This is uncharted territory, said Dr. Yvonne Bryson, an infectious disease specialist at Mattel Childrens Hospital UCLA, who consulted on the Los Angeles babys care. The only way we know that we really have remission is to stop therapy. The news comes almost one year after another group of physicians announced for the first time that an HIV-infected infant in Mississippi had been functionally cured of the disease following similar drug treatment. latimes/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-hivinfected-infant-deliver-in-long-beach-may-be-cured-20140305,0,5942732.story#ixzz2vA0r7nca
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