In a first, patient beats HIV infection; cell analysis shows no traces of virus
August 29, 2020 8:56 ISTIn a rare incident, a patient has cleared functional HIV infection without outside help. This may the first known instance of a spontaneous cure. According to reports, over 1-5 billion cells of this patient was analysed and it showed no functional HIV copies in any of them. However, the person still has some non-functional copies of the virus.