the infection that the child has had from birth is gone. this actually happened really quite easily and quite inexpensively. reporter: the cure came about as a fluke. the baby was born to an hiv positive mother who transmitted the vir to us her daughter. the baby put her on hiv drugs, but the mother, for some reason, stopped giving them to her when she was 15 months old. tests show the baby was hiv free, even show she had been off medication 8 to 10 months. what fantastic news. nobody would have expected this. reporter: the key to success might be that baby received relatively high doses of three hiv drugs soon after birth. usually they get low doses of one or two drugs after birth. if other babies could be cured after just 15 months on drugs that would be huge.
against hiv. scientists say a mississippi girl born with the virus that causes aids has been cured. that would make her the first child, only the second person in the world that can make that claim. as elizabeth cohen told us, this all happened by accident. it s a startling announcement. doctors say they ve cured a 2-year-old in mississippi of hiv, the infection she d had since birth gone. it s fantastic news from any number of angles. of course that a child has been cured this happened really quite easily and quite inexpensively. reporter: the cure came about as kind of a fluke. the baby was born to an hiv-positive mother who transmitted the virus to her daughter. the baby was put on hiv drugs, but the mother more some reason stopped giving them to her when she was about 15 months old. she was taken back to the doctor around her second birthday, and tests showed the baby was hiv free, even though she had been
shall be valid or recognized in this state. cnn political editor paul steinhauser is live in washington, d.c., this morning. boy, has this been playing out. we first heard the vice president joe biden. he says that he endorsed marriage equality and he is a roman catholic. how is this going to play out politically in washington? it puts president obama, in a way, in a bind because vice president biden and other top members of the administration has come out in favor of same-sex marriages. he does not. he supports domestic unions. but he does not support an amendment like the one in north carolina, which would prohibit rights for same-sex couples. what happens in north carolina now? this could have wide ranging impacts, and not just on same-sex couples but on male and female couples as well because it will prevent domestic partnerships in the future and any attempt at civil unions. north carolina also a battle ground state, a state that president obama won four years ago, he
evidence to show that murray did it, not one. no, except he s the only doctor in that location, who knows how to more administer it, hand he s been there for a long time. there s no issue, his job, $150,000 to put michael jackson to sleep a month. i m sorry, a month. thank you. to put michael jackson to sleep. that s pretty damning evidence. does any of that have any evidentiary value whatsoever? we re skirting the issue. where s the guy s hand on th iv bottle. 15 witnesses, not one person has said it. everything but that. it s crazy. shepard: there s been a saline solution next to me when i ve been in the hospital. i didn t put iv drugs in it. that s not to say michael jackson did, but what reasonable doubt is. if it makes you stop on an important decision, so far it ain t there.
basically give him an immune system. the donor was very special. but what they did, they took the stem cell from the donor and gave it to the patient. they followed him for a number of years and found out today, that not only is he cancer free, but hiv free. they have looked and have not been able to find any evidence of hiv in his body and he doesn t have to take hiv drugs anymore. the people who wrote this up said, sounds like a cure to us. so why can t this work for everybody? this can t work for anybody because let s go back. as i said, this is a very special donor. he or she. this donor is one of the very, very few people who is resistant to hiv. you could try to give it to him or her, but wouldn t get it. they sought out a donor like that on purpose because the