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Despite the high hopes raised among AIDS patients by the experimental drug AZT, the panel predicts that development of a safe, effective drug to halt or cure the disease or a vaccine that would prevent infection looks to be at least five years away. The time could be even longer, the panel said, if efforts are not stepped up greatly now. In France, however, some AIDS researchers appear more hopeful. Dr. Marc Girard of the Pasteur Institute in Paris announced last week that a vaccine developed there should be ready for human trials sometime next year. The vaccine was developed...
Nevertheless, although AIDS may be difficult to acquire, it is impossible to cure. At the very least, AIDS now threatens anyone who is promiscuous. The risk of the illness, said one AIDS researcher, "doesn't mean an end to sexual life. It means a rethinking...
...immune system can no longer keep the hibernating viruses in check; they awaken, reproduce and head for the skin. "As long as the virus remains latent in the ganglia, it remains shielded," says Bernard Roizman, a leading herpes researcher at the University of Chicago. As a result, no permanent cure for herpes exists, and none is in sight...
...viruses that have plagued human beings through the ages, few have cast darker shadows or proved more formidable than the one that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The current AIDS death toll of 15,000 in the U.S. seems small compared with some of the scourges of old. But no cure or vaccine is in sight, and the figure is expected to rise to nearly 180,000 in five years. By that time, predicts U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, 145,000 Americans with AIDS will need health and other services costing between $8 billion and $16 billion annually...
...long doses of the drug will continue to thwart the virus. They also warn that AZT has damaged the marrow of some patients' bones and could have even worse long- range effects. Moreover, says Terry Beirn of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, "we're not talking about cure. At the moment, I don't think it's in the lexicon...