Word: hiv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some time, scientists have known that a small African monkey called the sooty mangabey is the natural reservoir of a virus very similar to HIV-2, which causes a milder form of AIDS found largely in western Africa. But the source of HIV-1, the dominant cause of the AIDS pandemic, has remained elusive to virus hunters like Alabama's Dr. Beatrice Hahn. Long on the trail of links between HIV and kindred simian viruses, she jumped at the chance to examine old tissue samples (stored, as it turns out, in a freezer at the National Cancer Institute) from...
...idea that a less virulent strain of HIV might offer a path to immunity is only one of several options being considered, but it is unique because of the dangers involved...
...example, other vaccines attempt to introduce the immune system to the surface proteins of HIV. But when these methods fail, the results are less dire because proteins are not genetically capable of infecting a cell...
Previous experiments led researchers to believe that the most promising vaccine to fight HIV would use a weakened virus, but this idea now has to be revised, Ruprecht said...
Currently, the dominant treatment for HIV involves a cocktail of drugs that attack the virus once it has infected. The drugs can significantly reduce the presence of the virus but there is little evidence to suggest that it can actually cure the virus...