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Article: Woman helping identical twin fight AIDS by donating white blood cells. (Originated from Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 16, 1993
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Identical twins Amy and Christi Chatlos are alike in every way but one.
Christi's life is in jeopardy from the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.
Amy is healthy, but she's fighting the disease just as hard as her sister.
She is trying to save Christi's life, or at the very least prolong it, by giving her sister part of her own immune system.
The 26-year-old south Florida women have been recruited by the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., for a study to determine whether a healthy twin can give an infected twin a longer life. They are the only women in the study.
Doctors are trying to reconstitute Christi's immune system using ...
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