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The danger seems to have receded for the moment. The death rate has dropped from 60% of victims to 35%, and only three cases were reported in the Four Corners region in the past month, none of them fatal. Increased public awareness and a drop in the deer-mouse population...
A small number of people in other high-risk groups, including some homosexuals and spouses of infected hemophiliacs, have shown resistance to infection. But the Nairobi prostitutes, so frequently exposed to the virus for so many years, provide the strongest evidence yet that people can have a natural immunity to...
"The only vaccine that we have now is education," said Dr. Richard Marlink, executive director of the AIDS Institute. "The first step in behavior change is knowing something about the risk."
Panelist Donald S. Burke, Director of theMilitary Medical Consortium for Applied RetroviralResearch, in Rockville, Md., discussed the sevenmajor types of HIV viruses found around the worldand their impact on the development of a vaccine.
Burke said he hopes to see the development of acommon vaccine which will control the developmentof the different strains of HIV in both Thailandand the United States