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Researchers have found that aweak version of the AIDS virus may help protect against the lethal form. A nine-year study of prostitutes in Senegal showed that those infected with HIV-2, the weaker cousin of the HIV-1 virus that causes most AIDS deaths, were 70 percent less likely...
In a study of monkeys infected with a form of AIDS, British researchers have made a small, but potentially very signficant, step toward discovering an AIDS vaccine. TIME Science writer Christine Gorman reports that while the study is important, "a big worry with the type of virus used in the...
But former Medical School professor Dr. Charles A. Thomas, a member of the reappraisal group and head of the Helicon Foundation, says he thinks the CDC's database definition is flawed. Thomas says the lack of a vaccine and an inability to identify antibodies to the virus shows a need...
Officials there are trying to halt the spread by sprinkling vaccine laced food near raccoon habitats on the island, he said.
The Food and Drug Administration okayed the first chicken pox vaccine. Although for most people the disease is a mild, if annoying, infection, it kills up to 100 in the U.S. each year. The vaccine will be available in six to eight weeks and will cost doctors $39 a shot...