Though this is great, I do not think it means we can carry our stuffs on our necks to bang each other on the streets-unprotected.

A baby who was born with the virus that causes Aids appears to have been cured, scientists have announced.

Specialists at a major Aids meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, described the case of a child from Mississippi who is now two and a half and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.

Though there is no absolute guarantee the child will remain healthy, sophisticated testing uncovered just traces of the virus’s genetic material still lingering.

This is only the world’s second reported cure. Scientists believe the findings could be used to treat the many cases of babies born with virus.

Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health said:  “You could call this about as close to a cure, if not a cure, that we’ve seen.”

A doctor gave the baby faster and stronger treatment than is usual, starting a three-drug infusion within 30 hours of birth. That was before tests confirmed the infant was infected and not just at risk from a mother whose HIV wasn’t diagnosed until she was in labor.

Since about 300,000 children were born with HIV in 2011, mostly in poor countries where only about 60 percent of infected pregnant women get treatment that can keep them from passing the virus to their babies, this breakthrough has been blissfully accepted worldwide…

Are we there yet? I hope a cure for all would be found soon.