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Transcript: Baboon Marrow Transplant No Help to AIDS Patient
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- February 8, 1996
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Researchers were unable to find any evidence that baboon marrow helped
Jeff Getty, but they've not found evidence that it hurt him either.
Getty says he is feeling better and would undergo the procedure again.
NOAH ADAMS, Host: Some mixed news today about the California AIDS
patient who underwent a controversial baboon bone marrow cell transplant
two months ago. The experimental procedure was designed to bolster
the patient's ravaged immune system by giving him immune cells from
a baboon that could resist the AIDS virus. Doctors say there's no
evidence that the transplant worked, but there's also no evidence
the transplant was dangerous. David Wright ...