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A poison ivy vaccine is near
> An experimental vaccine, in pill form, offering real hope for permanent protection has passed its preliminary tests at the University of California at San Francisco and seems headed for Food and Drug Administration approval within two years.
Scientists have long understood how to make vaccines from urushiol. But what protection these drugs provided was accompanied by an excruciating side effect: anal itching. Last year, researchers found a way to neutralize the urushiol molecules that cause the itching. Dr. William Epstein, who heads the U.C.S.F. research team, told...
The discovery will enable doctors to attack a disease that has resisted all attempts at treatment and prevention: 43% of AIDS patients die within a year of diagnosis; no one has been known to recover. "This is the step that everyone has been waiting for," proclaims NCI Director Vincent Devita...
The Davis team now hopes to produce a vaccine that will protect monkeys from simian AIDS.