Why are idiots thanking Obama for stem cell transplant?

Man appears free of HIV after stem cell transplant

This procedure was done in 2007, during Bush's term. It wasn't even done in this country, it was done in Germany. It was a stem cell transplant involving blood and bone marrow stem cells (not embryonic stem cells).

An important part of the story says: "While promising, the treatment is unlikely to help the vast majority of people infected with HIV, said Dr. Jay Levy, a professor at the University of California San Francisco, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study. A stem cell transplant is too extreme and too dangerous to be used as a routine treatment, he said.

"About a third of the people die [during such transplants], so it's just too much of a risk," Levy said. To perform a stem cell transplant, doctors intentionally destroy a patient's immune system, leaving the patient vulnerable to infection, and then reintroduce a donor's stem cells (which are from either bone marrow or blood) in an effort to establish a new, healthy immune system."

President Bush was the first President to federally fund stem cell research in August of 2001.