Bone-marrow transplantation treats AIDS and causes the dispute

Bone-marrow transplantation treats AIDS and causes the dispute
Los Angeles, December 15 (Xinhua) ' Reporter's plateau) German researcher report at the monthly magazine in new one the intersection of U.S.A. and " the blood ", they pass the bone marrow transplant treatment " Cure " Person HIV-positive person. But it causes dispute whether this treatment could be popularized. The researchers of the Thai hospital introduce in the sand of Berlin of Germany, in 2007, an American male person who carries HIV over 40 years old accepts the bone-marrow transplantation treatment in Berlin because of suffering from leukemia, at that time the donor's bone marrow mixing type was not only very identical, but also can there is one kind natural variation gene which resisted HIV. Discovered, this kind of variation gene exists in seldom some European human body in the past. 3 years later, this American patient has already no longer had sign that leukemia and HIV infect. Researchers say in the report: "This result reveals very clearly this patient's AIDS is cured. " However, American HIV's medical association former president Michael pitches Georgia to think, if turn this kind of method into a standard treatment, there are greater risks. He says, at present, the stem cell or bone-marrow transplantation is often used for the treatment of cancer, but its risk still belongs to the unknown for healthy people, because it involves utilizing the strong medicine and radiating things and destroying human body's original immune system, then input the donor's bone marrow, in order to make a new immune system again, this kind of treatment and complication initiated will improve mortality. National irritation and infectious disease director of research institute Anthony and Fauci in U.S.A. think, this kind can't treat method of AIDS yet application at present, because expenses and risk are too high. However, it has offered more clues for the fact that researchers utilized gene therapy or other methods to treat AIDS.

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