March 6, 2014
Dr. Hannah Gay's patient, a Mississippi toddler born to an HIV-infected mother in 2010, tested positive for the infection at birth and for several months while under Gay's care. Then, she and her mother stopped showing up for treatment. When the baby returned to the University of Mississippi Medical Center about 18 months later, clinicians could not find the virus in her blood.
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A second American baby born with the AIDS virus may have had her infection put into remission and possibly cured by very early treatment—in this instance, four hours after birth.
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