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From: 86730%LAWRENCE.BITNET@oac.ucla.edu (Bill Sklar?)
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
Subject: Re: (2127) Cure for AIDS
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Date: 3 Jun 90 22:30:00 GMT
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I'm responding to this both on AIDSNEWS and BIOMED-L, so if anyone on
BIOMED-L wonders where this comes from, now you know:
>  I saw a little snippet on CNN yesterday in which they showed a man who once
>had AIDS and now does not.  Part of the treatment they used on him was, I
>believe, increasing his blood temperature to around 105 degrees for 4 hours.
>There's a name for this, but I forget it.  Coming from CNN, one might be a
>little distrusting of the facts, but it's not the first time I've heard it in
>the past 36 hours.  Does anyone out there have any hard facts on what's
>happening here?
>
>                                          ...Mikey

        I'm no medical expert, but that sounds like an awfully
dangerous thing to do.  Just out of curiosity, does anyone know of any
similarly drastic techniques used?  It seems to me that it should be
acceptable for anyone to undergo the treatements they wish, but how
far do we carry it?

                                                        --Bill