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...patient against smallpox, the 33rd Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) formally announced the eradication of the disease. Sixteen years later, the World Health Assembly recommended that the last smallpox stocks (thought to be held at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow or the Russian State Center for Research on Virology and Biotechnology, in Koltsovo) be destroyed. The original deadline was 1999, but was pushed back...
Similarly, nasty viral infection raging along the Afghan-Pakistani border is neither unusual nor unexpected; Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, as it is known, makes an appearance in that region each spring and summer, as ticks are its primary mode of transmission. Since March, 47 cases of the disease have been reported; at least four of those occurred in recent weeks...
...revelation made headlines a month ago: Thanks to a rhesus monkey named Godot, and his astounding good health in the face of repeated viral injections, researchers are increasingly optimistic about a new AIDS vaccine. Now, as scientists and activists descend on Philadelphia for the 2001 AIDS Vaccine conference, more details are emerging about this very welcome development. Researchers are pelted with questions: How has this vaccine kept Godot, a test subject at Emory University?s Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, so healthy, even as scientists injected him with deadly levels of the HIV virus? And, more important, given the same...
...Further complicating the issue is the fact that while Godot appears healthy, he is still infected with the AIDS virus. That means even in the best case scenario, this "vaccine" might only be capable of keeping a person?s viral load under control, or even imperceptible - but it would not block the virus from entering the body. That kind of non-vaccine vaccine, adds Dr. Laurence, has a demonstrable psychological downside...
...molecular structure to the HIV virus and teaches antibodies the secret to fighting the real virus. Aldar Bourinbaiar, an American scientist who is connected to Salang's foundation, claims that within 15 days many patients start putting on weight and their sores begin to heal; over six months the viral load drops and the CD-8 interceptor cells, which protect the body's immune system, start rallying. "We know the drug replaces infected cells with healthy ones, but we'll probably spend the next 10 years figuring out why it works," Bourinbaiar says...