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May 17, 2008

Why is there no Vaccine?

Important story in the Washinton Post:

3/21/08: Vaccine Failure is Setback in AIDS Fight

The two-decade search for an AIDS vaccine is in crisis after two field tests of the most promising contender not only did not protect people from the virus but may actually have put them at increased risk of becoming infected.

In 1984, when government scientists declared at a press conference that the "Probable cause" of AIDS had been found, they also predicted that a vaccine would be developed by 1986.

At some point, after Tens of Billions of Dollars of tax-payer funded research, Why is there still no vaccine?

More so, why is the vaccine increasing the risk of infection?

Posted by Otis on May 17, 2008 at 06:09 PM | | Comments (0)