If the child remains healthy, she would become the second person in the world, and the first baby to have been cured of the virus since the global pandemic almost 32 years ago accord. For the baby's safety, doctors are refusing to release her name.
Scientists revealed the details about the case and the staggering news at a scientific conference this past weekend.
The child received aggressive treatment only 30 hours after birth and has shown no signs of infection since being off medication for a year according to NPR.
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci stated that the case is "very likely a cure." He did say however that it's still closer to the hypothesis stage than a final solution.
"In those circumstances you don't aggressively treat the baby you wait about six weeks (after birth) until you can definitively prove that the baby is infected and then you treat them," said Fauci according to CBS News. "Unfortunately, if the baby is infected, then that may have given the virus a period of time to establish itself."
At 23 months, the baby returned for more treatment, and after a full year of not receiving treatment, the virus was "shockingly" still undetectable according to ABC News. Doctors defined the results as shocking because they usually are not able to stop treatment at any time with children who are born with the virus. This was the first exception.
The child's mother was HIV positive before the child was born, and did not get the proper prenatal care or HIV treatment before giving birth according to Dr. Rowena Johnston to ABC News.
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