alt Hacker NewsWell that's a take, would you like to share whatever insights you have into that ?
I think I would be more surprised than anything else if it was random because I'm not sure I've ever heard of someone 'randomly' being cured of any disease without intervention.
My take is that this is a discovery by luck.
i am not a doctor but maybe the stem cell transplant just removed something dormant.
But needing a cell transplant to remove the HIV sounds inhuman to me. It is an intervention but I am not convinced you need all this pain to cure him from HIV.
Was he already on antiviral drugs? I think so.
Also the subtitle of the article is pretty revealing
"A handful of people with HIV have been cured after receiving HIV-resistant stem cells – but a man who received non-resistant stem cells is also now HIV-free"
HN has become downvoting machine. So sad. I wonder how many people could have been cured from their malladies if people were less aggressive.