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Not all the news in the fight against AIDS is good, of course. Researchers have little more than a string of failures to report from the vaccine front. Early in the epidemic, they decided that it was too dangerous to follow the twin paths of traditional vaccine development--treatments based...
One possible solution is to engineer genetically a harmless hybrid virus that contains some, but not all, of HIV's hereditary information. Scientists are now focusing their efforts on the canary pox virus, which causes a rash in birds but not in people. By introducing a few HIV genes into...
It now seems clear that there will not be a single breakthrough HIV vaccine on a par with the dramatic polio advances of the 1950s. In fact, it will probably take several generations of vaccine development to come up with even a partially effective preparation. Any future HIV vaccine will...
This is where the hantavirus was identified, where Ebola and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and South American Junin virus are all studied for clues to how to stop them. And it is here at the CDC that a new, deadly flu virus would be sent so scientists could race against...
Before they could do that, however, they would need to know that a new outbreak was occurring. So the CDC and the WHO have jointly set up eight surveillance sites in China, where new flu strains almost always arise in livestock (mostly pigs and ducks) before jumping to humans. At...