Miraculous death through HIV virus

Novartis is betting $ 20 million on a strange cancer treatment.

Although hard to believe, it seems that this therapy saved a 6-year-old girl in the United States, the New York Times reported.

Just last spring, the little girl Emma Whitehead, a leukemia patient, was still staring from having undergone radiotherapy twice without results.

Little Emma at April 2012

But things changed after her parents took Emma to trial treatment at Children's Hospital Philadelphia. The doctors injected her with a reprogrammed version of the HIV virus to attack cancer cells.

Immediately after injection, Whitehead almost stopped breathing but over time, this treatment worked and she is miraculously recovering. Now she can walk around the house.

Emma at the present time

However, doctors said this method could not be effectively applied to all patients but also depending on the location of each person. Until now, only 3 adults were completely cured. The other four adults hardly have any improvement in their illness. A pediatric patient had cancer again while two other adult patients refused the HIV virus completely.

The New York Times stressed that all these patients were 'hopeless' cases of cancer treatment before testing for HIV, so any success is miraculous.