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The children with a built-in defense against AIDS
In South Africa, a rare group of children unknowingly find themselves resistant to the effects of HIV. Even without antiretroviral treatment, they will never develop AIDS, or so scientists believe. Unlike adults and other children who succumb to the virus if not treated -- enabling it to attack their immune cells and weakening their immunity to disease -- these kids harbor huge amounts of HIV within their blood but remain unscathed. In fact, they're healthy.
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