[quote="Yahoo News"]
BANGKOK – For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible.
The vaccine cut the risk of becoming infected with HIV by more than 31 percent in the world's largest AIDS vaccine trial of more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand, researchers announced Thursday in Bangkok.
Even though the benefit is modest, "it's the first evidence that we could have a safe and effective preventive vaccine," Col. Jerome Kim said in a telephone interview. He helped lead the study for the U.S. Army, which sponsored it with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
The institute's director, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned that this is "not the end of the road," but said he was surprised and very pleased by the outcome.
"It gives me cautious optimism about the possibility of improving this result" and developing a more effective AIDS vaccine, Fauci said in a telephone interview. "This is something that we can do."
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Basically, an experimental vaccine has been made that helps stop you getting HIV.
That's nice, I'm still not going to sleep with whores.
They should invent a virus that instakills people already infected with AIDS and HIV instead.
hang on, how did they test this?
Surely it'd involve infecting all the test people with HIV and seeing who gets infected? :raise:
Had to happen at some point I suppose
[QUOTE=Callius;17480477]hang on, how did they test this?
Surely it'd involve infecting all the test people with HIV and seeing who gets infected? :raise:[/QUOTE]
I guess they tested it on HIV infected blood first, then after loads of test they had some people that didn't give a shit or something similar.
[QUOTE=CammyD;17480539]I guess they tested it on HIV infected blood first, then after loads of test they had some people that didn't give a shit or something similar.[/QUOTE]
It's China.
[quote]ALVAC uses canarypox, a bird virus altered so it can't cause human disease, to ferry synthetic versions of three HIV genes into the body. AIDSVAX contains a genetically engineered version of a protein on HIV's surface. The vaccines are not made from whole virus — dead or alive — and cannot cause HIV.[/quote]
That's how they tested it.
I bet even more people will get AIDS now, because they will get the vaccine and think they're safe.
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