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Nov 13, 2008

An AIDS patient is apparently free of HIV after receiving a bone marrow transplant during leukemia treatment.

The patient, a 42-year-old American living in Berlin receiving stem cells from a donor with a genetic mutation, making him immune to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

--Reuters

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