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Nothing can dampen the spirits of Jeff Getty. Nat the budget cuts and government shutdown In the US, nor even all the snow blizzards lashing parts of the country. He has gone home... Hallelujahl Getty's doctors say it will be a long time before they can say whether the AIDS resistant baboon cells have begun to grow and function immunologically. But Getty has passed what his doctors considered to be the riskiest period of the experiment without experiencing any significant complications of the procedure. 'From Jeff's point of view, heatth-wise, things have gone better than expected," says one of his his doctors, Steven Deeks. Tests have shown no evidence of new infections and his white blood count has returned to the level it was before the transplant. There are only two possible sources of worry. First the graft-versus-host disease, which sometimes surfaces months after the transplant. The second, according to Deeks, is that the amount of conditioning may have been too little to let the marrow grow and function. But otherwise, It seems the critics may have to eat crow.
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