The key point that stood out for me is a half-percent of all HIV patients studied were nearly immune to the disease: "About a decade into the AIDS pandemic, do

The key point that stood out for me is a half-percent of all HIV patients studied were nearly immune to the disease: "About a decade into the AIDS pandemic, doctors began to find a handful of patients who tested positive for the HIV virus but experienced no symptoms and were later found to have vanishingly low levels of the virus in their bodies. At the time, these case studies were presumed to be one-offs. But the more doctors looked, the more such patients they discovered. The past few decades have revealed that people with unusually potent immune responses make up about 0.5 percent of the 38 million HIV-infected people on the planet. Scientists call these people “elite controllers,” and in recent years they have become the subject of intense international study... "