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NOTHING BUT PARTIES FOR THE ONE GUY CURED OF AIDS
December 16 2010
Berlin, Germany – Plague has always been a part of the human experience. Plagues, mass death of all kinds, have long helped to shape the course of human history. Whether they have resulted in the destruction of nations and leaders, or their 
happenings have resulted in stronger care and medical treatments, the end result has often been dramatic change in one direction or another. Disease, for all the trauma it creates, has been essential to our success as a species.
There is no better example of that than in the greatest plague of the modern era, HIV and AIDS. While it could reasonably be argued that on a per capita basis other diseases have been far more destructive – events like the black plague or the 1918 influenza pandemic – there is no disease in human history that has spread so widely so rapidly, and impacted the very thing that allows our species to exist, our ability to reproduce. HIV has also had a profound effect on the social and moral order of the world in ways no disease before it has done, particularly in Africa where the very real possibility of social collapse grows every day. All of those factors combined make the disease perhaps the most important in our history, something totally meaningless for one man who has already beaten the disease and is now enjoying high life like few others can in this plague ridden era.
“Our results strongly suggest that cure of HIV has been achieved in this patient. Something like this is the greatest thing one can achieve in medical research,” said one researcher who worked on the case. “I would call this a functional cure. It's on the level and a very remarkable case. But would we do this with an HIV patient? No. This procedure is very specific to this person and the process itself involves a great deal of risk.”
The patient, 44-year old Timothy Ray Brown, was treated given a bone marrow transplant with stem cells. Brown has remained HIV free for three years despite heavy partying.
“There is little debate that HIV is the plague of our time. True, things like cancer and 
heart disease kill far more people, but they are not transmittable diseases, events that can cascade throughout a population. That is what separates something like HIV from these other types of ailments. It replicates throughout a population regardless of risk factors and readily strikes people of all ages, something these other diseases do not do,” said Scrape TV Medical analyst Dr. Phillip Waites. “HIV stands poised to become the most destructive in human history particularly because we are so unable to combat it, particularly in the Third World. In today’s society all countries are connected in some way and if anarchy were to reign in Africa, the global economy would shutter and stop. HIV and AIDS are not just a disease of the body, they are a disease of the human experience.”
33 million people are currently afflicted with HIV or AIDS, Brown excluded.
“This is an interesting case but is simply only a stepping stone to an eventual solution to this problem. The reality is that this treatment will not work for everyone and even if it did, it is dangerous and very expensive which means that those most vulnerable would not have access to the treatment at all,” continued Waites. “However it did work for this man and at least we have that success. Whether or not it leads to long term treatments, this one person has been freed of this dread disease and that gives him pretty much a free pass for the rest of his life. I’m sure he’s been sticking things into all kinds of other things that no one should be sticking things into and having a great time doing it. I would if I got that chance especially if I knew I was more or less immune, good on him.”
Brown also beat cancer in the process but researchers have stopped short of calling him a superhero.
Lauren Hebert, Health Correspondent
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