HIV/AIDS

Severe, chronic immune system disease that was epidemic in the 1980s. Retrovirus causing CD4+ T cell depletion and opportunistic infections.

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Timothy Ray Brown, the 'Berlin Patient,' became the first person cured of HIV after receiving a bone marrow transplant from a donor with a rare CCR5-Δ32 mutation (which makes immune cells resistant to HIV). The transplant was originally to treat his leukemia, but it eradicated the virus as well.

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