Mississippi Child Thought Cured Of HIV Shows Signs Of Infection : Shots - Health News Scientists hoped the baby's apparent cure would lead to similar treatments in infants worldwide. But with the ...

A child in Mississippi who was thought to have been cured of HIV after aggressive treatment with drugs is now showing signs of infection with the virus, federal health officials announced ...

A Mississippi child born with the AIDS virus who scientists thought might have been cured following drug treatment has shown signs of infection again, in a disappointing turn for researchers who ...

Recent medical research reveals that early HIV symptoms often masquerade as common illnesses, leading many to delay seeking medical attention. Dr. Sarah Chen, infectious disease specialist at ...

HIV can pass from a pregnant person to their child during pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding. Still, people with HIV can have healthy pregnancies. The risk of passing HIV to an infant is less ...

Scientists hoped the baby's apparent cure would lead to similar treatments in infants worldwide. But with the child still HIV-positive, some question the ethics of a large study in other children.

This discovery is a setback for the child known as the "Mississippi baby." It also complicates efforts to test what had seemed like a promising new treatment for infants born with HIV.