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An effective vaccine would save the day, and last year researchers at Yale were reporting some progress. But the approach has so far proved successful only in mice and has yet to be tested in humans. Some resolute citizens are said to chew garlic before venturing outdoors, hoping wistfully that...
Even if an effective AIDS vaccine were discovered tomorrow, its development would presumably be of little benefit to the 3 million to 5 million people around the globe who already harbor the virus in their body. Most vaccines work to prevent an infection, not to eliminate it after it has...
The results are preliminary: only 30 patients took part in the experiment, which lasted a scant 10 months. All the subjects appeared healthy to begin with and had been host to the virus for less than seven years. Yet even if this vaccine never helps a single person with full...
To achieve that goal, the researchers chose a vaccine, manufactured by MicroGeneSys of Meriden, Conn., that consists of genetically engineered pieces of the virus. The vaccine makers took strands of DNA that code for the outer covering of HIV and put them into another kind of virus, one that infects...
"From a conceptual standpoint, the study is quite interesting," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But he cautions that any dangerous side effects from the vaccine could take years to show up. Even so, the preliminary effects were intriguing enough that Redfield...