Three Years On: The (Other) Berlin Patient is Still HIV-free

It was nice to see Gero Hütter is being honored (full article) for having successfully - and accidentally - cured an American man from HIV. Virus, still gone, three years on.

Gero Hütter is the German physician from Berlin who performed a bone marrow transplant to treat a patient's leukemia and cured both of the patient's conditions. Who knew leukemia (treatment) could have this kind of upside?

Via positivelypositive.ca

• Wall Street Journal reported on bone marrow transplant and Gero Hütter in 2008.

• Skynews Video

• NTD world News

• Associated Press

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