AIDS activist Jeff Getty dies at 49
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061015/ap_on_he_me/obit_getty"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061015/capt.206db3408e4d4885bedd9fd064991ac0.obit_getty_ny108.jpg?x=93&y=130&sig=OXRZVezPrt8argB.OUHRlA--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="Less than a month after he received bone marrow from a baboon, AIDS patient Jeff Getty smiles at a news conference as he leaves San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco in this file photo from Jan. 4, 1996. Getty, a prominent AIDS activist who made history in 1995 when he underwent a controversial transplant of baboon bone marrow to treat the disease, has died. He was 49. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan-File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Jeff Getty, a prominent AIDS activist who in 1995 received the first bone-marrow transplant from a baboon to treat the disease, has died. He was 49.</p><br clear="all"/>