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A comment on For the First Time in History Man Cured of HIV. Parent comment

Re:For the First Time in History Man Cured of HIV by vlad on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @12:15AM (#2007150)
There has only been one case; all the articles you remember reading (including this one) reference this one study.
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Re:For the First Time in History Man Cured of HIV by ars on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @01:05AM (#2007236)
But that was in the news 2 years ago - why are we talking about it again?

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1858843,00.ht... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7726118.stm

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Re:For the First Time in History Man Cured of HIV by frisco on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @02:54AM (#2007410)
This is real science. It took three years to be sure; and for an announcement like this, the investigators want to be sure before they put their reputations behind it.
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