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So with the nation on the brink of war and possible bioterror retaliation, the bill - which is scheduled for a Senate committee vote this Wednesday, a week after the U.S. Surgeon General got his smallpox vaccination in front of news cameras in hopes of inspiring others - may founder. Republican Sen...
A Frist staffer said the package contains several initiatives that would help vaccine victims, such as extending the statute of limitations for filing claims with the VICF to six years. But, said a Democratic staffer, "this isn't the time or place to be giving out special interest favors."
They were not exactly celebrating, of course. But according to Harvard AIDS researcher Max Essex, nobody really expected it to work. Indeed, says Essex, although a dozen other vaccines are in early stages of testing, "it's extremely unlikely that anything already in trials is going to be a home...
VaxGen's AIDSVAX vaccine, for example, targets gp120, a protein on the surface of HIV that latches onto receptors on human immune cells. The virus can then break in, multiply and kill the cell. AIDSVAX has a synthetic version of gp120 that tricks the body into producing antibodies; when real...
Thus it was no surprise that AIDSVAX did not prevent infection overall among 5,108 high-risk men and 309 high-risk women. What was surprising was that it seemed to offer some protection--how much is in dispute--for a subgroup of 498 black and Asian subjects. That does...