JACKSON, Miss. —Doctors at the University of Mississippi Medical Center said they have cured a baby suffering from HIV and the breakthrough is reverberating worldwide.

“There is excitement around this,” said Dr. Deborah Persaud of John’s Hopkins Children’s Center.
Doctors across the country are heralding the medical breakthrough in Jackson.

“We have, perhaps inadvertently, but in fact, cured the child,” said Dr. Hannah Gay, associate professor of pediatrics. “We don’t know yet what to expect with this patient because she’s the first of her kind.”