Spanish Scientists Trial Promising HIV Vaccine
5th October 2011
Researchers at the Spanish Superior Scientific Research Council (CSIC) have successfully completed Phase I human clinical trials of a HIV vaccine that came out with top marks after 90% of volunteers developed an immunological response against the virus. The MVA-B vaccine draws on the natural capabilities of the human immune system and “has proven to be as powerful as any other vaccine currently being studied, or even more”, says Mariano Esteban, head researcher from CSIC’s National Biotech Centre.
Retroviruses are among the biggest challenges medicine faces today. This is a significant milestone on the road to beating them.
October 6th, 2011 at 16:31
Great. Something to allow even more people to live longer and swamp us with either outrageous debt or hordes of destitute seniors dying in the gutter.
We all know how HIV is spread. If you don’t want to die, don’t be promiscuous. End of list.
As for the unwitting who came by it on accident, in nature there is no distinction between the stupid and the unlucky–both end up in some predator’s belly.
Think of AIDS as Evolution in Action…