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The Land Of Twins It's a curious, but little-known fact that the rate of twin births in West Africa is about four times higher than in the rest of the world. The centre of this twin zone is Igbo-Ora, a sleepy southwest town in Nigeria. More twins are born here than anywhere else on earth, but nobody is quite sure why this town should be more twin prone than any other.Outlookreports from the 'twin town' with a difference. On the road going into the town of Igbo-Ora, there's a large stone plinth, which proudly welcomes visitors to 'the land of twins'. Here there are few households who do not have at least one set of twins. Nigeria is the most highly populated nation in the world with an estimated 110 million people and population experts say that the country, particularly the southwest, has the world's highest twinning rate. Whilst recent accurate figures do not exist, a study conducted by a British gynaecologist, Patrick Nylander, between 1972 and 1982 recorded an average of 45 to 50 sets of twins per 1000 live births in the southwest. In the predominantly rural community of Igbo-Ora, multiple births are celebrated and have, over the generations, been regarded as special gifts from God. Twins are a blessing, with many pregnant women wishing for multiple births. 'Whilst twins could be considered the result of providence, other local people attribute the predominance of twins to tradition. Meanwhile, others believe it to be diet.' Yam Births Central to the Yoruba people's diet is the cassava, a plant with a tuber root, which can be eaten in addition to the leaves and flowers. Research into multiple births carried out at Lagos's University Teaching Hospital has suggested that a high level of a chemical found in the Yoruba women and the peelings of the tuber could account for the high level of multiple births. A consultant gynaecologist at the hospital explains: 'These substances are usually linked to the release of more than one egg, which usually leads to twin pregnancies. That means that there is possibly an environmental factor that encourages the high level of this chemical substance.' The doctor, who has witnessed many multiple births at the run-down hospital, continues by linking the staple diet of the women to the prevalence of the chemical: 'Numerous works has shown that the tuber food of the Yoruba women, especially the peelings, contains a very large amount of these chemical substances. These women have a disproportionately large amount of these chemicals in their system and this encourages the release of more than one egg. There is enough reason to believe in this theory.' So, could it be that eating tuber peelings leads to multiple births? The International Institute of Tropical Agricultural is uncertain. Following research into the reputed high oestrogen content of a yam like vegetable called agida, Robert Asiedu is sceptical of the tuber link. Citing the specific cultivation of yams in regions of Asia for their contraceptive qualities, in an article forScience In Africamagazine, he commented: 'Nobody has provided any scientific explanation or evidence that could prove that yam consumption can cause multiple births.' A Special Breed Igbo-Ora is not a wealthy town, many families rely on farming for their income and resources are scarce. Bringing up large numbers of children can be a struggle, but in many families the arrival of twins continues to be warmly welcomed as one townsman explains: 'Being a father of twins is a joy. It is a sort of honour, because you know they are a special breed from God. Igbo Ora town of twins, Nigeria Twins, Oyo State Hardly could one get to a household at Igbo Ora, Oyo State, without seeing a set of twins. The indigenes believe that a kind of okra leaves, locally known as ewe ilasa, is capable of making women who use it give birth to twins. Taiwo Abiodun who visited the town writes on this phenomenon Welcome to Igbo Ora, The Nation’s Home of Twins At the mere mentioning of Taiye or Kehinde in the public place could trigger a simultaneous response from more than four people. In other words, the names, being what twins are called (the former for the one who came first and the latter for the one who followed) in Yoruba land, unusually have more than one claimant in this land. “If you gather about 200 people, 70 per cent of them is likely to be twins,” Taiwo, twin, told The Nation. “I am a twin and my twin brother’s wife is also a twin and she has a set of twins. My younger sister, Idowu, has two set of twins too but I don’t have twins yet. I believe that my new wife will deliver twins by God’s grace,” he said as he thumped his chest. Chief Isaac Olurinmade Olapegba [JP],73, described the town as a unique town where God blessed the people with twins and triplets, saying “every time our women deliver babies they always give birth to twins and at times triplets. You can go and ask the medical doctors as the record is there for everyone to see. In fact, people from all walks of life do come here for research.” Elated, the septuagenarian further told The Nation that the signs that the town is blessed with twins are everywhere. “Go to the entrance of the town and to the roundabout where we have the statue of the mother of twins and her babies on her chest and her back. Delivering twin babies is our industry here. We are the ones producing more twins than any other towns in Nigeria, and that is what our study reveals because of the symbolic reason that we prepare okra leaves as soup more than any other soup,” he said. He noted further that: “There is no man or woman in this town who does not know how to eat okra soup. We cook the leaves called ewe ilasa (ilasa leaves) more of which we consume than any other soup. If you go to the market on market days, you will see how twins’ mothers carry their twin babies and dance around demanding for money. Hardly will you go to any house without seeing at least a set of twins. In fact, you could see three sets of twins in a house. Therefore, if you are calling Taiye, you need to be specific so that we can know whether it is the senior or junior one, or else all of the twins could rush to you to answer. It is a funny thing and we shall soon have twins fill the town. It is God’s gift; it is just blessing we cannot explain. It is incredible.” In order to convince this reporter of his claim, the old man took him round the town, visiting about 20 houses where they have a set of twins, triplets, or two sets of twins of different age, similar and different sexes. Again, it is not uncommon to hear that a Taiye or a Kehinde is away to Lagos to buy clothes when asked about their whereabouts. The import of this metaphoric journey is simply that the person in question is dead. In some of the houses visited, such euphemistic rendition was not wanting. A mother of twins simply called Iya Ibeji (a mother of twins) observed that the nursing of twins is quite hectic, especially at infancy. She said, “Feeding the twins and taking care of them is not easy at infancy, but it only gets better when they are growing up. When they become big men and women, say medical doctors or engineers, one can now be proud of them because they have become big men and women – important personalities in the society. Then you will appreciate them as people will envy them and you would have forgotten the stress you have gone through.” She spoke on the idiosyncrasies of twins: “Their best foods are beans and corn meal. While growing up, they wear the same clothes and put on the same shoes. The fact is that some mothers die while taking care of them because of the rigour of stress and many other things they undergo while the children are very young. Breast-feeding them is a very tasking for the mother. Hardly does the mother have time for herself. Twins always cry at the same time and fall sick again at the same time, or one after another. And the mother has no choice but to take care of them sometimes to the detriment of her health.” Similarly, Olapegba revealed that twins, according to the town’s traditional belief, are regarded as special creatures and therefore should be treated like gods. Hear him: “We have our own traditional way of taking care of twins. We buy them the same clothes, shoes, bangles, and do same hairstyles for them. We equally treat them like gods and therefore build a shrine for them in the corner of the living room where we use the items like palm oil, tubers of yam, and dry beans (ekuru) for ritual everyday, especially when one of them is sick or dead. When one of the twins dies, an effigy which will serve as a replacement of the deceased is carved and placed in a corner where some rituals are carried out on it everyday so that the living one is not dragged along to the grave.” According to the town’s spokesperson, this is compulsory, for many twins had been snatched by death just because the rituals were neglected. In the words of Mrs. Kehinde Sakiratu Kehinde, her mother had three sets of twins and also built shrines for them when they were young. However, her twin brother, Taiwo, died recently and she feels his absence daily. In a quavering voice, she said: “Despite the fact we are not identical and of different sex, I still miss him.” Asked whether she has an effigy of her twin brother on which she pours libation or palm oil on so as to prevent him from taking her away to himself, the woman replied to the contrary, saying, “it was practised in the olden days but things have changed now. It is still practised by the illiterates. Not only this, Christianity has taken away all these things and education has changed many things too. But that does not mean some people are not doing it as some still believe in it. It has become personal belief for many. I cannot blame them over this.” On why some of the twins’ mothers dance round the town, Kehinde said the mothers of these twins should not be blamed, for many are given the conditions by soothsayers or diviners called babalawo. According to her, twins are considered to be strange people who came to the world of their own and it is believed that they have different spirit that goes with them and that is why they cannot be harmed. She added, “Some of these mothers were informed before the children grow up that they must take them out and must dance round the town or market places or else they would die. I know a wealthy woman who is a trader and sells clothing materials in Lagos. But when her baby twins were falling sick everyday, she was instructed by the oracle to go and dance in the market places before they could recover. She refused and was ashamed to go so low and out of shame did not do it. But she would later regret that as one of the living twins fell sick again and was dying. She later went to the market place to dance.” Mrs Kafaya Olawale, another mother of twins, was met breastfeeding her baby twins. Her twins, she said, are one year and two months old. She equally agreed breastfeeding a set of twins is a hard work to do. “It is not easy my brother,” she moaned pointing to them and adding, “You can imagine how they both cry for breast at the same time. Besides, they cry a lot if they find out that they are wearing different clothes. It’s like they are spirits, for one would cry if she sees her twin sister wearing clothes different from hers. So, you must wear the same clothes for them or else they will keep on crying and this could lead to sickness for them.” To Kafaya, the claim that the eating of some special okra leaves also aide the birthing of twins in this town is not a myth. “Yes, it is true. If you want to have baby twins, just go for ilasa leaves. That is the way one can have twins. The leaves are cooked as soup and before you know it you will be pregnant with twins.” When this reporter got to the market and requested ilasa leaves, the sellers all laughed and asked him whether his wife is aiming to have twins. The surprising thing is that most of the sellers are called Iya Ibeji. Displaying the leaves, one of the women, a mother of twins, declared: “I have three sets of twin and this ilasa leaf is the secret behind it here in this town, nothing else. That is our own industry here and people come here to ask for it even from overseas they do demand for it and take it out.” Apart from being known for having twins, Igbo Ora is also known to be the sixth largest charcoal-producing town in Oyo State. Igbo Ora derived its name, according to an octogenarian, from verbal challenge posed to a friend. According to him, there were two friends; one lived in the town while the other lived in the forest. The latter occasionally did come to town to pass time there with his friend. He got so used to this that sometime he would not feel like going home. One day, his town-dweller friend asked him to go to the forest he bought (igbo o ra). Ever since, the saying became a household name with which the town is identified.. Those are the boldly written words that a first time visitor to the ancient town of Igbo Ora is bound to see as they course through its main entrance. A little further into the town at the roundabout is a sculpture of a woman, a mother of twins with a baby strapped to her back and another on her chest with a girdle, while the twins raised up their hands in an ecstasy of jubilation. |
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Lagos Police Headquarters Is On Fire. on Dec 12, 2014 - 10:28am The Police headquarters building on Obalende, Lagos state has been engulfed by fire...The gigantic fire which started this morning at the 'Kan Saleem' police station building close to P&T affected most parts of the Police force edifice...Cause of the fire was not known at press time as firefighters have reportedly been drafted to the area to quell the outburst and other security personnel on ground to forestall order
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LADOKE AKINTOLA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY OGBOMOSO END OF SEMESTER EXAMS COURSE TITLE: Love Mathematics. COURSE CODE: MTS 419 All question carry equal marks. TIME: 2hrs, 30minutes. 1. If a girl is in love for 10years and at the end, the guy breaks up with her, what is the Formula for calculating such Love and Time wasted? 2. As a guy, you dated more than 6chicks At a time, using the Almighty Formula, calculate the expenses and Loss in handling all of them? (Question 3- For girls only) 3. Using Laws Of Indices, calculate the disappearance of your boyfriend whenever you demand for an iPhone 6. (Question 4- For boys only) 4. You send an Airtime worth #1000 to your girlfriend and she sends you a Please call me I Love You text, calculate the profit and Loss percentage of the Airtime being send and use the proportional ratio to attain the equation. 5. In not more than 10pages, what are the similitude between AjeButter girls and AjePako girls. 6. With the aid of a Labeled diagram, draw and explain the Nigerian love. 7. You broke up with your gal because of Sallah/Christmas gift, etc. Using quadratic equation, calculate how long it'll take you to get her back in January. 8. As a guy, you are dating other people's sisters, but you don't want any other guy to date your sister. Calculate the %-Error of your Foolish and wicked behavior (Take ^ pie =3.142) 9. When you check a Facebook profile 99% of guys are single as their marital status state, and 100% of the Gals are dating, its complicated, engaged, in a relationship, married. briefly explain who they are dating in not Less than two sentences.... N/B- Attempt all questions to avoid carry - over....Best of luck. |
Since you broke up, your stomach has felt like a hollow pit of emptiness, but you still can’t work up an appetite; your heart feels as if it’s clamped in a vice and you haven’t slept a wink all week. We’ve all been there before and there’s no question about it: losing the love of your life is a miserable experience. But it’s time to stop romanticising the past and agonising over what you’ve lost on the outside, because the real pain is coming from inside your head. The brain hates being dumped. The same area that’s active when you’re in physical pain also goes haywire when you suffer personal rejection, says psychiatrist Dr Marcelle Stastny – evidence, she says, that your head is the one telling your body that being dumped hurtsand not the other way around. When you’re in love, certain areas of your grey matter are awash in dopamine and oxytocin, hormones that give you feelings of pleasure and contentment, says Stastny. But when your love is lost, so to speak, your supply of these natural feelgood chemicals dries up, leaving you more vulnerable to stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. Under normal circumstances, your brain churns out cortisol, adrenaline and other stress hormones in response to a threatening experience. In limited quantities and the right context – like when an overtaking car nearly takes your bumper off on the freeway – these hormones help you react quickly to dangerous situations. The problem is that the organs responsible for producing them can’t always tell the difference between a stimulus that’s life threatening and a stimulus that’s emotionally threatening. What’s more, emotional threats like heartbreak tend to last longer than the physical variety. As a result, these hormones accumulate and can become harmful to your health. An overabundance of cortisol, for instance, tells your brain to send more blood to your muscles, causing them to tense up for swift action. But you’re not running anywhere or hitting anything. As a result, you’re plagued with swollen muscles that can cause headaches, a stiff neck and that awful squeezing sensation in your chest. Cortisol also diverts blood away from your digestive tract, leaving you with some serious gastrointestinal unpleasantness. And to make matters even worse, an overabundance of stress hormones can suppress your immune system, making you more vulnerable to infections – hence the all-too-common post relationship health meltdown. The precise way your body will react to a break-up is similar to the way your body reacts to stress, says Stastny. So if you have a sensitive stomach, you could be prone to cramps, appetite loss or diarrhoea. If you have asthma, you might reach for your pump more often as stress hormones send your bronchial tubes into overdrive. And if you happen to have an addictive personality, you may feel as shaky as a heroin junkie in rehab because the area of your brain that processes cravings and addictions is also activated by emotional loss, according to recent research by the US Albert Einstein College of Medicine. How to deal with heartbreak The good news: although you may feel emotionally trampled for a while still, you can do something to ease your physical pain – and we don’t mean late-night clubbing, pizza binges or other indulgences. Instead, try de-stressing herbal remedies like kava-kava and a good B-vitamin complex or, better yet, teach yourself some relaxation techniques like deep breathing to calm your nervous system. You can also curb those wild stress hormones by dragging yourself to gym for some aerobic exercise, Stastny advises. Working out prompts your brain to release uplifting endorphins. And take a friend with you: camaraderie can induce a much-needed boost in your dwindling oxytocin levels. “One thing you should avoid doing is locking yourself in your room and hiding from the world,” says Cape Town-based psychologist Mark Connelly. “Turning into a hermit will only make things worse.” He advises getting back into some of your favourite pastimes and activities, since doing anything enjoyable can help rev your brain’s dopamine system. If you can’t dissociate your old passions from time spent doing things with your ex, take it as an opportunity to try something new: take a drawing class or join a jogging group – you’ll never bump into that lazy slug there. As Connelly says: “Whatever clears the mind could actually cure the body.” Wallowing is one way we work through what went wrong… If theories of evolutionary psychology hold true, drawn-out pity parties began as a defence mechanism that kept our female ancestors from exposing themselves to further hurt by jumping into the next Neanderthal’s cave too quickly. Since then, wallowing has also become a tool we use to keep love alive – in our minds, at least. Sifting through old photos makes you feel linked to your ex, even if you no longer see him. And gorging on sad, heartbreak-heavy movies and songs makes you feel understood and not so alone. “one benefit of self-pity is that when you wallow, you tend to go over (and over)what you’ve done well – and what you could have done differently,” says Cape Town-based psychologist Mark Connelly. “And that could prepare you to handle things better in your next relationship.” Why we cry The biology behind the "snot en trane": Crying is healthy. When we’re severely overwhelmed, we can’t help but weep, says neuropsychologist Dr Jodi de Luca. Our bodies use crying to defuse bottled-up stress that can wreak havoc on our immune systems. Tears Attract Kindness It’s likely that human tears evolved so we could send out a clear non-verbal message: I need attention! So, De Luca says, “They elicit a sympathetic response in others.” It’s A Girl Thing Young males and females cry roughly the same amount, but one biological reason grown women cry more than men: after puberty, women’s bodies contain much more of the hormone prolactin, which is a main ingredient of emotional tears. So, experts infer, women are able to form and shed tears at a much faster and more frequent rate |
Many would call it a leap of faith, some service to humanity, while others see it as plain stupidity for former NFL Star Jason Brown to give up his career for a dream, but he is convinced it was the right thing to do. The 31-year-old NFL Star, who was once ranked one of the best players in the league and consequently offered a $35 million contract to play for the St. Louis Rams, gave all up to start a farm near his home in North Carolina, growing sweet potatoes and distributing the crop among the poor. Read more from CBS. When Brown first decided to make the move back to his home county of Louisburg, his agent told him that he was making the biggest mistake of his life. But he was convinced that this was the right thing to do. “I looked right back at him and I said, ‘No, I’m not. No, I’m not,’” Brown said. “God revealed to me that he had something greater in store for me and that my family should move back to my home state of North Carolina and start a farm,” Brown wrote on his website. “This really caught us by surprise because we knew nothing about farming. Yet, out of obedience, we started looking for available farmland.” Despite never have done farming work a day in his life, Brown ended up buying a 1,000-acre property. He and his wife Tay named it ‘Fruits First Farm’, making a promise that his people would receive the first fruits of whatever is produced from the land. He then watched a ton of tutorials on YouTube, got a bunch of advice from local farmers, and started cultivating sweet potatoes and cucumbers on his plot. He put in years of work to restore the land to arable condition, and recently gave away his first successful crop – 100,000 pounds of sweet potatoes. “When you see them pop out of the ground, man, it’s the most beautiful thing you could ever see,” he said. |
A Saudi man has divorced his wife after she ignored his Whatsapp messages despite reading them. The husband, in his 30s, was frustrated by his wife’s seemingly endless interest in using her phone for chatting with friends and family. “She spent most of her time on the phone to the point that she neglected looking after their home and taking care of their child,” he said. On asking why she didn’t answer him or acknowledged his messages, the wife said that she was busy talking with her friend. The man claimed that his wife is too busy with her friends to answer his messages. He claimed that his best efforts to find remedy to the situation has failed as his wife needed to be on her smartphone to keep in touch with her family and friends. “I sent her messages on Whatsapp and knew she had read them because of the latest update on the application but still she didn’t answer him or acknowledged his messages,” he was quoted as saying by the Gulf News. A recent survey has seen a rise in the number of divorce cases because of social networking sites. A 2011 UK survey by Divorce Online, a legal services firm, says more than a third of divorce cases contain the word Facebook |
Getting a tooth extracted is never a fun occasion, what with the massive needle, the dribbling and the general indignity of it all. And that’s just for one tooth. Now imagine if you had to have over 100 teeth pulled out. That’s what faced one little girl, who presented at the dentist with 202 teeth fighting for space in her mouth. The seven-year-old from New Dehli in India visited All India Institute of Medical Sciences where Dr Ajoy Roychoudhary, head of oral and maxillofacial surgery spoke about her situation: ‘It was shocking to see such complex situation in the minor’s mouth,’ he said. ‘Normally we see a few abnormal teeth-like structures in such patients; 202 of them inside the mouth of a seven-year-old is shocking. Our prime task was to get rid of it.’ The girl was found to be suffering from compound odontoma – when a complex tumour forms of normal dental tissue that has grown in an irregular way. She had to endure two hours of surgery to remove all of the extra teeth. Dr Roychoudhary explained that the operation was very delicate as a jaw fracture would have led to permanent deformation. According to the girl’s family, she is recovering well and is able to chew again |
The Obama administration started 2012 with an important rule change that will reduce the time that the spouses and children of undocumented immigrants are separated from their citizen relatives while applying for legal status. Latino and Hispanic groups, immigration lawyers and immigrant advocates praised the move. The change eliminates the requirement that illegal immigrants leave the United States for long periods before they can ask the government to waive its ban on legally re-entering the U.S. The ban typically lasts 3-to-10 years, depending on how long the undocumented immigrant has stayed in the United States without the government’s permission. The new rule would allow family members of U.S. citizens to petition the government for the so-called hardship waiver before the undocumented immigrant returns home to formally apply for a U.S. visa. Once waivers are approved,immigrants can apply for green cards. The net effect of the change is that families will not endure long separations while immigration officials are reviewing their cases. Separations that lasted years now will take only weeks or less. Only immigrants without criminal records can apply for the waiver. See Also:Explaining the Filibuster Rule Change of 2013 Before the change, applications for hardship waivers could takes as long as six months to process. Immigration officials believe that the processing time could drop to a matter of days once the change takes effect. Under the old rules, the government received about 23,000 hardship applications in 2011 from families that faced separations. About 70% were granted. Continue Reading Below Because the administration is changing an administrative rule and not U.S. law, the move does not require the approval of Congress. Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director, said the move underscores “the Obama Administration’s commitment to family unity and administrative efficiency” and will save taxpayers money. He saidthe change would increase the “predictability and consistency of the application process.” The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) applauded the change and said it “will give countless American families a chance to stay together safely and legally.” Hard numbers are difficult to get, but based on census data and anecdotal evidence, hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens are married to undocumented immigrants,many of them Mexican and Latin American.Many of those families are likely now to come forward and stop living in the shadows. “Although this is just a small part of dealing with the dysfunction of our immigration system, it represents a significant change in the process for many individuals,” said Eleanor Pelta, the AILA president. “It’s a move that will be less destructive to families and bring about a fairer and more streamlined waiver process.” Pelta said she knows of applicants who have been killed while waiting for approval in dangerous Mexican border cities that are riddled with violence. “The adjustment to the rule is important because it literally saves lives,” she said. The National Council of La Raza, the nation’s most prominent Latino civil rights group, praised the change, calling it “sensible and compassionate.” Republicans criticized the rule change as politically motivated and further weakening of U.S. law. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, said the president had “granted back-door amnesty” to potentially millions of illegal immigrants. Latino and Hispanic groups have criticized the Obama administration for aggressively pursuing deportations during its first three years. A solid majority of Hispanic voters has favored Obama in election polls taken during 2011, though many of these same voters have expressed disapproval of his deportation policies. Obama won two-thirds of the Latino vote in 2008, and it figures to be the country’s fastest-growing voting bloc for the 2012 elections. Latino voters are especially critical in swing states such as Florida, Colorado and Nevada. Obama had campaigned on implementinga comprehensive immigration reform planduring his first term. But he said problems with the worsening U.S. economy and stormy relations with Congress forced him to postpone plans for immigration reform. In 2011, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the administration would use more discretion before deporting undocumented immigrants.The aim is to concentrate on immigrants will criminal records rather than those who have violated only immigration laws. |
Some people have a gene defect in the co-receptor for HIV and live a completely normal life. This gene defect is probably most common among people living in Northern Europe. “Just like the Norwegian army manages perfectly well even though a little handgun goes missing, the body manages without the CCR5 receptor,” explains Kvale. Paradoxically, the defective gene does not make you ill, but prevents you from contracting HIV. Since the CCR5 gene is non-functional, the HIV virus cannot bind itself to it. And it is perhaps here that the key to overcoming the virus lies hidden. By genetically manipulating this gene in HIV patients and making it defective, researchers can perhaps eradicate the virus. “We have two copies of every gene,” says Kvale, and continues, “People with defects in the co-receptors in both genes do not become infected by HIV. Those who have one healthy and one defective gene are infected more slowly and contract a HIV infection that develops far less rapidly. The virus that disappeared The goal is to find a cure for HIV. And this is no longer a Utopian dream, according to Kvale. One possible path is by genetically manipulating the stem cells in the bone marrow of a HIV-positive person so that they acquire the gene defect that gives protection against HIV. The case of “The Berlin patient” is unique in HIV research. This relates to a HIV patient who actually got rid of the infection. The patient was HIV positive, and was also stricken by leukemia. As part of his cancer treatment, he underwent a bone marrow transplantation. After being treated with large doses of cytostatic drugs and radiation to kill the cancer cells, he received bone marrow transplanted from a healthy donor. The donor belonged to the small percentage of people who possess the above-mentioned co-receptor with a defective CCR5 gene. The healthy bone marrow with the defective gene was transplanted into the patient, and the doctors stopped giving him HIV medication. And the result? The HIV virus disappeared. |
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