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Most animals have little to fear from the lethal AIDS virus. That is good for them but not for human beings, since other species are of little use to medical researchers seeking treatments and vaccines for the deadly disease. The limited value of research on baboons and chimpanzees, among other...
Actually the personal risk to Zagury was probably quite small. The vaccine he used, based on the work of NIH Immunologist Bernard Moss, contained only a tiny portion of genetic material from the AIDS virus. This material was inserted into the genes of a larger, harmless virus, which served as...
! How would it work in humans? A few weeks after Zagury scraped his skin enough to let the experimental substance enter his bloodstream, tests showed that his body had produced two types of immune response: antibodies to the AIDS virus, plus specialized blood cells capable of defending against incipient AIDS...
The implications of the high court's pronouncement were dramatized last week by a Louis Harris survey of 227 scientists. They predicted that more than 1,000,000 Americans will have developed AIDS by the year 2000 if no cure or vaccine is discovered before then. Courts and administrative agencies...
At first AIDS seemed an affliction of drug addicts and especially of homosexuals, a "gay disease." No longer. The numbers as yet are small, but AIDS is a growing threat to the heterosexual population. Straight men and women in some cases do not believe it, in some cases do not...