Primeira pessoa com HIV curada

Man Officially Cured of HIV
http://gizmodo.com/5713498/man-officially-cured-of-hiv


For the first time, a man has been declared officially cured of HIV. The remedy may nearly have killed him, but it opens a door—just a crack—to hope that we may someday kill off the scourge for good.


Strangely enough, the diagnosis that most concerned Timothy Ray Brown in 2007 was acute myeloid leukemia. HIV has been increasingly thought of as a manageable disease, though certainly a terribly burdensome one. What brought the 42-year old Brown under the care of Germany's Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin hospital was the more immediate threat his cancer posed.


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-- Abraham Lincoln

Coincidências?

1) Visa e Mastercard bloqueiam o Wkileaks;

2) The latest cable leak shows that US diplomats worked hard on Visa and MasterCard's behalf in Russia, where the Russian government was working on a new national payment card system, that would likely deprive Visa and MasterCard of transaction fees in Russia. Convenient timing.

WikiLeaks cables: US 'lobbied Russia on behalf of Visa and MasterCard' | World news | The Guardian

www.guardian.co.uk

US diplomats intervened to try to amend draft law so that it would not 'disadvantage' US credit card firms, cable says