World’s first person to be cured of HIV dies in California
Timothy Ray Brown, the first person to recover from HIV through a unique type of bone marrow transplant, died in California after a relapse of leukemia. Brown, 54, was diagnosed with HIV while living in the German capital in 1995. In 2007, he became internationally known as the «Berlin Patient» after undergoing experimental and risky — but, in the man's case, successful treatment. It included the destruction of Brown's immune…