Andrew Stimpson

Andrew Stimpson ( born 1980 in Largs, Scotland ) is a former British model. He became known as the first documented HIV -infected patient, which is believed, his own immune system have the agents of the most deadly immune deficiency probably automatically destroyed. The assumption based on the fact that at a later test series no antibodies were detected. Apart from reports of two British Sunday newspapers are not accurate information.

In August 2002, HIV infection was diagnosed in the Scotsman. During another test, which was carried out due to health improvement in October 2003, no antibodies were detected. Stimpson was not subjected to medical treatment. His spontaneous healing is viewed as an anomaly.

According to media reports had ruled out that there has been a false test result in the first positive HIV test. But it is quite possible that Andrew has a gene abnormality that prevented a docking of the HIV virus. Therefore, the disappearance of his HIV antibodies can not be understood as a cure in the sense that the healing mechanism can be transferred to other HIV - posititve whose Genarchitektur does not have this gene abnormality. However, it is not excluded that it may have occurred at the first diagnosis and to create confusion of the examined blood.

While it is already similar cases have been in Africa, but there were always missing the evidence.