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Doctors: Infant cured of HIV at UMC - Local News - Jackson, MS | NBC News
Doctors: Infant cured of HIV at UMC - Local News - Jackson, MS | NBC News
JACKSON, Miss. —Doctors at the University of Mississippi Medical Center said they have cured a baby suffering from HIV and the breakthrough is reverberating worldwide.
"There is excitement around this," said Dr. Deborah Persaud of John's Hopkins Children's Center.
Doctors across the country are heralding the medical breakthrough in Jackson.
"We have, perhaps inadvertently, but in fact, cured the child," said Dr. Hannah Gay, associate professor of pediatrics. "We don't know yet what to expect with this patient because she's the first of her kind."
The hospital will not share many details about the 2-and-a-half-year-old who was born HIV positive, saying only the child is from the Mississippi area and was born to a woman with HIV.