Scientists say a man with HIV is the first to reach long-term remission without a bone marrow transplant, but their peers are skeptical

• At a virtual medical conference, researchers announced that a 36-year-old man from Brazil was HIV-free, after being given a cocktail of drugs.
• Their peers were skeptical, noting that HIV tended to go away and then return in patients who had been touted as cured.
• The researchers announced that they would send samples of the man's blood to other labs to be independently tested.
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Brazilian researchers announced...