BREAKING NEWS: THE CURE FOR HIV MAY HAVE BEEN FOUND

For the first time ever, a woman has been cured of HIV.A woman dubbed the ‘New York patient’ by scientists at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City has defeated the virus after receiving a rare, but dangerous, stem-cell treatment.She is the fourth person to ever be cured of HIV – the previous three are all men – and experts have found two cases of women somehow beating the virus naturally.The woman was also a cancer patient, and received a treatment meant to combat both diseases at once – but is also so risky that it has been deemed ‘unethical’ to use it on people who do not have a late-stage cancer diagnosis.In order to perform this treatment, doctors must first find a donor who has a rare mutation that makes them resistant to the virus.Experts tell NBC that people who have this mutation are usually northern European, and even then only one percent of that […]