Steve Crohn, ‘The Man Who Can’t Catch AIDS,’ is survived by his
three sisters and several nieces and nephews.
Stephen Crohn, “The Man Who Can’t Catch AIDS,” took his own life
late last month in New York at the age of 66.
Crohn’s white blood cells had a genetic defect that made him
resistant to AIDS even when tested with “HIV concentrations
thousands of times greater than would be encountered outside a test
tube,” according to Dr. Bill Paxton of the Aaron Diamond AIDS
Research Center in New York.
Scientists found that Crohn’s white blood cells resisted infection
when exposed to HIV, due to a rare genetic defect.
“My brother saw all of his friends dying, and he didn’t die,” Amy
Crohn, Stephen’s sister, explained to the New York Times. “He went
through a tremendous amount of survivor guilt about that and said
to himself, ‘There’s got to be a reason.’ ”
In 1996, British newspaper The Independent called Crohn “The Man
Who Can’t Catch AIDS” – a title that came to define his life as he
subsequently was the focus of documentary films and newspaper
articles around the world.
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