CBS News: UMMC Doctor Says Baby Born with AIDS Appears to Have Been Cured

This image released by the University of Mississippi Medical Center shows Dr. Hannah Gay, a pediatric HIV specialist at the University of Mississippi, Friday, March 1, 2013. A baby born with the AIDS virus appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, March 3, 2013, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection. 'I just felt like this baby was at higher-than-normal risk, and deserved our best shot,' said Gay. Photo by Jay Ferchaud/Associated Press

Washington, D.C. – A baby born with the AIDS virus appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who’s now two and a half years old and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection. Read the story.