Man Cures Himself of HIV?

IZ Reloaded writes "A 25 yr old British man could be the first person in the world to have cured himself of the deadly HIV virus. He was diagnosed HIV positive in 2002. After another test done the following year, he stunned doctors when his test results turned negative. He is now a wanted man after researchers and doctors want him to come back for further testing but he has so far refused. Experts think he could have something in his immune system that may help in producing vaccines against HIV."

Infect Him Again

[ibemonty2000]

Lets infect him again and see if he can go 2 for 2. -Monty

Patent...

[xyvimur]

Maybe he should patent himself, his DNA and other things ;)

Hmmm...

[Isosceles Triangle]

Does this guy also have a skeleton laced with Adamantium...?

Re:Waht's next?

[FidelCatsro]

They have had those for a while , they are called condoms (Though not an 100% defence)

Re:It's not surprising

[Anonymous Coward]

We proud Arians are a superior race.

I knew it!

[scooter.higher]

The Flying Spaghetti Monster proves once again that evolution does not happen by chance! This man must be a pirate, or a Pastafarian at a minimum!

Wanted: females

[Anonymous Coward]

Willing females wanted to have unprotected sex with this man in order to increase human kernel stability and eventually preserve the human race. Only respond with picture, please.

555-letshivsex

Re:Wait

[Propagandhi]

Are you saying that if you could help scientists to cure a disease that's killing hundreds of thousands of people every year by devoting a big chunk of your time, you WOULDNT do it?

Hey man, didn't you read the GP!? He wants a normal life. Can't you understand that watching 10-12 hours of TV a week, working some shitty job, and breeding is more important than curing a disease which will destroy millions of lives?

Re-Infect Him, yet again

[TiggertheMad]

He's already tried.

Well, damn, I'm impressed.

Perhaps we should hit him with a dose of Anthrax and see if his immune system can whip up a cure for that, too while we are at it...

Man Cures Self of Aids

[AliasMoze]

He's a witch!!!

Re:Infect Him Again

[Errtu76]

so actually, the cure is to have more sex!

Re:How sure?

[nacturation]

No research necessary -- the answer is in plain sight: "A 25 yr old British man could be the first people...

Clearly this man is more than one person, judging by the use of the word "people" when referring to an individual. Perhaps when the man was first tested it was his second person they tested. Upon subsequent tests, it's his first person. Case closed! Another fine caper solved by ScuttleMonkey.
 

Obligatory...

[Llywelyn]

But does he weigh more than a duck?

Re:Science subject

[leenoble_uk]

A PINT! That's nearly a whole armful.

He turned me into a newt!

[HoneyBunchesOfGoats]

I got better...

Subsequent tests...

[PeteDotNu]

Upon performing further tests, they subsequently returned results of positive, negative, flegative, bogative, rogative and spigative.

An amazing achievement

[TempeTerra]

A 25 yr old British man could be the first people in the world to have cured himself of the deadly HIV virus.

Now, curing HIV is all well and good but I think we're overlooking the real achievement here. These man - with no aid from the scientific establishment - have become more than one person!

Root kit

[iMaple]

or maybe the virus is just using the Sony rootkit

Re:Science subject

[Crizp]

You ever donated blood? :)

Re:HIV is getting milder

[MudDude]

Interesting. If it is in the disease's best interest to keep the host alive for maximum proliferation, than with each evolutionary cycle, the virus will protect the host more and more.

This means that, within time, virusses will evolve into the Means for Man to achieve Immortality in some kind of twisted mutual-benefit relationship. (mutualism)

I should write Science Fiction books.

Regards,

Re:Wait

[ozmanjusri]

working some shitty job, and breeding is more important than curing a disease

Given that he contracted the HIV from his "44-year-old HIV-positive partner, Juan Gomez", I'd say breeding is not that high on his list of priorities.

Re:Refused?

[FooBarBlatDing]

He's waiting to patent his genes first.

Re:How sure?

[Anonymous Coward]

He's obviously Legion.

Re:Science subject

[zebs]

:) wheres the mod points when you need them!?

Re:HIV Virus

[Anonymous Coward]

I bought a NIC card earlier with money that I got from the ATM machine with my PIN number, so I could get on Slashdot to read about the HIV virus that causes AIDS syndrome. I'm using GNU Unix and running the KDE environment on my P4 pentium processor.

Re:Re-Infect Him, yet again

[Jekler]

Yeah! Lets go all out! Antrhax, ebola, a little flesh-eating bacteria, throw in some influenze for good measure to balance out the portfolio. I mean these days skillsets are all about diversity, lets not short-change this guy by making him a one-trick pony. I mean, how is that going to sound in 25 years? "Hey, I cured HIV!" and everyone else is like "Yeah, we heard, big deal, what else can you do?"

Re:Man Cures Self of Aids

[gmby]

Burn Him! Burn Him! Burn Him!....

Oh and for you funny bone impaird; This is a Joke.
And for the /. impaired; This is a (Score:5,Funny)

Re: Evolution, No Way!

[T0wner]

Clearly God must smile upon this slightly more intelligently designed being.

Re:Root kit

[xtracto]

Does it means $sys$HIV installed without asking when they inserted the media?

Re:It's not surprising

[LiquidCoooled]

I say if there is someone alive now who survived the plague way back when then we should be studying him for his immortability rather than his HIV resistance.

Re:Obligatory...

[slavemowgli]

European or African duck?

Re:Wait

[indifferent children]

I would (up to a point), but I want the freedom to choose to do so.

Fine, you have the freedom to do so. You just don't have the freedom to not do so. :)

Re:How sure?

[indifferent children]

I'm sorry, but your immune system was released under the GPL, and you must release any modifications.

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Headline from the future

[doug141]

The PTO has just granted a man a patent for his T Cell structure... he has partnered with Sony to prevent unlicensed use.

Re:Obligatory...

[Bob Cat - NYMPHS]

And does he swallow?

pints?

[quest(answer)ion]

it comes in pints?

[hides]

flower petals

[bennini]

HIV positive...HIV positive not....HIV positive....HIV positive not...

Re:Science subject

[tehshen]

Don't worry, there's no 'arm in giving blood!

sorry, sorry...

Omega man

[beforewisdom]

This reminds me of the old Charlton Heston movie Omega Man.

Now that this guy's blood holds the cure for a plauge, I wonder if he is going to go around beating albino marxist hippys?

Re:Science subject

[Mattcelt]

Hey, everybody knows you can't give blood if you've been in the UK for more than 3 months...

Re:Wait

[Hugonz]

Given that he contracted the HIV from his "44-year-old HIV-positive partner, Juan Gomez", I'd say breeding is not that high on his list of priorities.

It doesn't mean they don't try breeding every night, it's just that he does not get pregnant...

Re:pints?

[U1timateZer0]

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime; doubly so.

Re:How sure?

[mochan_s]

Maybe he doesn't want to for the rest of his life be studied by some scientists. I would love to help people but I sure as hell wouldn't want to spend the rest of my life in front of doctors if I was in his position, I would rather continue a "normal" life (you know, normal, /. reading computer geek)

Are you crazy!

If I had the cure to HIV running in my veins, I'd first get legal advice on how to best financially exploit the situation.

Re:How sure?

[Afrosheen]

Come on dude, we all watched Spielberg's E.T. We know how things turn out when scientists get involved!

Maybe we're going about this the wrong way...

[NeoTwig]

Perhaps his partner Juan Gomez is the one we should be looking at. He's the elusive #2!

1) Contract HIV
2) Have lots of unprotected sex with Juan Gomez
3) Profit!!!

Re:How sure?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is this what they mean when they say the GPL is "viral"?

Re:Root kit

[Dr. Cody]

Does it means $sys$HIV installed without asking when they inserted the media?

"They"!? One at a time buddy!

A new frontier for linguistics

[JavaRob]

Come on, it's not that complicated:

He started out in the first person, thinking "I'm disease-free!". But then the doctor told him in the second person, "nope, you've got HIV." Finally, the news tells us in the third person, "well, he doesn't have HIV now...".

Obviously, we've got a lot left to learn about how HIV is transmitted from person to person. At least he's not as tense now as he was in the past.

[wait, are you laughing with me or laughing at me?]