Relapse of "cured" HIV patients spurs AIDS science on

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Relapse of "cured" HIV patients spurs AIDS science on

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/relapse-quot-cured-quot-hiv-patients-spurs-aids-121236239.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/1XF9i3NZLRlqgdUUwNq9Mg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_ZA/News/Reuters/2014-01-02T121236Z_1_AJOEA010XX100_RTROPTP_2_OZATP-HEALTH-AIDS-CURE-20140102.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="(Blank Headline Received)" align="left" title="(Blank Headline Received)" border="0" /></a>By Kate Kelland, Health and Science Correspondent LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists seeking a cure for AIDS say they have been inspired, not crushed, by a major setback in which two HIV positive patients believed to have been cured found the virus re-invading their bodies once more. True, the news hit hard last month that the so-called &quot;Boston patients&quot; - two men who received bone marrow transplants that appeared to rid them completely of the AIDS-causing virus - had relapsed and gone back onto antiretroviral treatment. &quot;It's a setback for the patients, of course, but an advance for the field because the field has now gained a lot more knowledge,&quot; said Steven Deeks, a professor and HIV expert at the University of California, San Francisco. He and other experts say the primary practical message is that current tests designed to detect even very low levels of HIV present in the body are simply not sensitive enough.</p><br clear="all"/>

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