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AIDS research 艾滋病研究 Cured of HIV? HIV感染者被治愈了? An American child seems to have been 美国HIV感染幼童似乎真是如此 IN JOURNALISM, cynics suggest, three data points are enough for a trend. 愤世之士认为，在资讯界里三个数据点就足以确定一条曲线走势。 As of March 4th, AIDS researchers hope two might be sufficient. 然而在3月4日，艾滋病研究人员却满怀信心地认为，也许两个数据点就足够了。 On that day Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins University announced to the Conference onRetroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, in Atlanta, Georgia, that a patient under her carehad been cured of HIV infection. 约翰斯霍普金斯大学的黛博拉佩尔绍德于当日在佐治亚州亚特兰大的逆转录病毒和机会感染会议上宣布，她负责的一个感染HIV的病人已被治愈。 The announcement was hedged withcaveats. 说是治愈，其实是有一定前提。 But the bottom line was clear. 但最关键的信息已经很明确了。 Dr Persaud thinks her patient, a two-and-a-half-year-old girl, has joined Timothy Brown, aman known to many as the Berlin patient, as a human who was once infected with HIV andnow no longer is. | 
