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TIME accompanied Ho and his team from the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC) for two weeks earlier this year as he traveled from Kunming, the cosmopolitan capital of Yunnan province, where his drug-treatment and vaccine projects are based, to the remote border town of Ruili, where heavy heroin...
Even the best AIDS drugs properly administered can do only so much. What doctors really need to head off a runaway epidemic is an effective vaccine. In fact, it was a vaccine trial that took Ho to China in the first place. In a way, China is an ideal place...
He is scheduled to inoculate his first healthy volunteers in New York with the U.S. version of the vaccine this week. Before he can begin testing a vaccine in China, however, Ho needs to know more about the virus strains circulating there. To protect against HIV, any experimental AIDS vaccine...
The real fear is that H5N1 could crossbreed with a standard human-flu virus to create a highly lethal, highly contagious strain with the potential to cause a global flu pandemic. Professor Yi Guan of the University of Hong Kong, the lead researcher on the Nature paper, worries that H5N1...
Although the virus that causes polio is highly contagious, bringing it under control is relatively straightforward because a cheap vaccine has long been available. "There is no magic to this," says Dr. Tumseh Salah, who is managing the Swat Valley vaccination program. "You immunize enough kids, and you can stop...