{"id":19924,"date":"2019-03-18T08:50:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19924"},"modified":"2019-03-18T08:50:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T08:50:39","slug":"an-aids-therapy-involving-parasite-injections-was-discredited-china-is-reviving-it-for-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/18\/an-aids-therapy-involving-parasite-injections-was-discredited-china-is-reviving-it-for-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"An AIDS therapy involving parasite injections was discredited. China is reviving it \u2014 for cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PVivax_Wellcome-645x645.jpg\" \/><span class=\"media-caption\">Plasmodium vivax, the malaria-causing parasite used in the cancer clinical trial in China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>American surgeon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/12\/17\/henry-heimlich-dies\/\">Henry Heimlich<\/a>\u00a0is best known for inventing a way to rescue choking victims, but a quarter-century ago, he was vilified for promoting a fringe treatment for AIDS and Lyme disease. Called malarial therapy, it involved injecting patients with the malaria-causing parasite, supposedly to stimulate their immune systems. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2019\/03\/18\/cancer-china-reviving-discredited-immunotherapy\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Plasmodium vivax, the malaria-causing parasite used in the cancer clinical trial in China. American surgeon\u00a0Henry Heimlich\u00a0is best known for inventing a way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}