Aids vaccine is it real?

[Willoughbyva]

http://www.aegis.com/news/ads/2004/AD042431.html

It has been posted in other places. Do you think it is real?

 

[olds]

N

 

[aplefka]

Doubt it.

 

[Mrvile]

Nope, otherwise I would've heard it by now.

 

[QuitBanningMe]

I hope not.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Nope

 

[Philippine Mango]

No I think it is, I've been hearing about it on my local news station for months.

 

[Willoughbyva]

Is nature medicine a reputable journal?

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v10/n12/full/nm1147.html

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
No I think it is, I've been hearing about it on my local news station for months.

Is that a double negative?

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: QuitBanningMe
I hope not.

your an asshole aren'tcha?

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
Nope

I was quoting ppl like him..

 

[QuitBanningMe]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango

Originally posted by: QuitBanningMe
I hope not.

your an asshole aren'tcha?

yeah :roll:

 

[Pepsei]

stop posting and just put www.parascope.com in your .sig

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

nope....you're screwed.

 

[guyver01]

A French AIDS vaccine candidate designed to treat - rather than prevent - the disease has suppressed HIV among a small set of volunteers in Brazil for up to a year, according to a preliminary report in Nature Medicine. However, the custom- made vaccine is difficult to produce, costly and impractical to deliver to large numbers of people.

doesnt' matter if it is...

it only lasts a year... and is prohibitably expensive.

big freaking breakthru.

 

[Willoughbyva]

What if it lasts longer than a year? Besides it looks like it is really interesting and should be persued. It actually gets the imune system involved in fighting off the virus. Plus it doesn't have the side effects of the other types of treatment.

I don't have HIV or aids, but it is kind of exciting for mankind that progress is being made in fighting one of, if not the worst things going around the globe.

I was just wondering if you guys had heard about it or if you thought it was really a breakthrough?


EDIT
BTW I think it is cheaper than a years worth of other types of medicine. I think they cost about $12,000.00 a year unless they have come down in price.

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: guyver01

A French AIDS vaccine candidate designed to treat - rather than prevent - the disease has suppressed HIV among a small set of volunteers in Brazil for up to a year, according to a preliminary report in Nature Medicine. However, the custom- made vaccine is difficult to produce, costly and impractical to deliver to large numbers of people.

doesnt' matter if it is...

it only lasts a year... and is prohibitably expensive.

big freaking breakthru.

I only skimmed the articles, but I got the impression that the one year marker is simply because the study only lasted one year, not that it only works for one year.

 

[OS]

Originally posted by: Willoughbyva
Is nature medicine a reputable journal?

http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v10/n12/full/nm1147.html

I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but nature is a very reputable journal.

 

[Willoughbyva]

Sorry I didn't mean to sound sarcastic. I thought nature was a very reputable source of information. I guess I kept reading that no one thought it was real so I posted that.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

I thought the antigens from HIV continuously mutate which would negate all vaccines because the CD8+ wouldn't be able to recognize the newly mutated strain. Is this a reputable site?

 

[Willoughbyva]

That might be why they say an injection might be needed every year. So that when it mutates the new vaccine will catch it. Perhaps they could only give a new injection when it does mutate. How long does it take for this stuff to mutate? Is it a slow process or a long process? I was also wondering why different people were effected in different ways? Why some got better than others?

 

[Last Rezort]

Originally posted by: QuitBanningMe
I hope not.

????????

 

[Willoughbyva]

I asked the same thing I have heard that nature medicine (the second site i linked to) was a reputable journal. OS said it was to.

 

[QuitBanningMe]

Originally posted by: Last Rezort

Originally posted by: QuitBanningMe
I hope not.

????????

What do you think is an acceptable way to die? Right now there are only a few basic things that kill us. I don't think getting rid of them is a good idea. Especially the late life killers. I'm not against an aids vaccine as much as I'm against being able to create one.

 

[User1001]

There are aids vaccines for certain strains, but the problem is the virus mutates to fast for the vaccines to be effective. China is trying to use some of these to help quell their problem.
<--- Son of a doctor.