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The CDC predicts that West Nile will continue its flight westward and eventually spread to every state, except maybe Hawaii and Alaska. Since there is no vaccine or treatment, the best protection is to stay indoors at dawn and dusk, when mosquitoes are most active, and douse exposed skin with...
Is the brouhaha justified? Wimmer, who has been studying polio for more than 33 years, says it was important to demonstrate that viruses can be made from scratch. Polio is a disease that would be of little interest to terrorists, he argues: there is a readily available vaccine, and terrorists...
The conference also marked a shift away from looking for cure and toward finding new ways of prevention "We're going back to the original goal in this fight, which was the preventative vaccine," says Dr. Ronald Kennedy, chair of the department of microbiology and immunology at Texas Tech University...
That's not to say there won't be a vaccine some day, says Dr. Gallo. "We'll solve this problem. I will never again make specific predictions, but I believe that despite what some scientists think, we will find a vaccine. And I'll take on anyone with that...
Meanwhile, American pharmaceutical company VaxGen created quite a controversy by announcing early in the conference that its AIDS vaccine, currently in trials, could come to market as early as 2005. While many activists leapt at the news, scientists and journalists were more skeptical. "Until the trial results are available in...