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...presumably be of little benefit to the 3 million to 5 million people around the globe who already harbor the virus in their body. Most vaccines work to prevent an infection, not to eliminate it after it has taken hold. Now, however, a group of scientists from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Rockville, Md., believe they may have found a retroactive vaccine. In a study published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, the team announced that repeated immunizations with a genetically engineered AIDS vaccine appeared to stabilize and perhaps even boost the beleaguered immune...
...patients took part in the experiment, which lasted a scant 10 months. All the subjects appeared healthy to begin with and had been host to the virus for less than seven years. Yet even if this vaccine never helps a single person with full-fledged AIDS, the Walter Reed team has sketched out a blueprint for a potential new weapon against the disease. "This is the first time anyone has proved that you can change the immune system in a chronically infected person," says Dr. Robert Redfield, research-group leader. "Now we have to find out whether or not this...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Katherine Mihok, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, Nancy McD. Chase, Georgia Harbison, Anne Hopkins, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Sidney Urquhart...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Katherine Mihok, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, Nancy McD. Chase, Georgia Harbison, Anne Hopkins, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Sidney Urquhart...
ASSISTANT EDITORS: Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo, Andrea Dorfman, Katherine Mihok, Brigid O'Hara-Forster, William Tynan, Jane Van Tassel (Department Heads); Bernard Baumohl, Nancy McD. Chase, Georgia Harbison, Anne Hopkins, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Sidney Urquhart...