Posted on 11/08/2007 5:58:12 PM PST by neverdem
In a puzzling and potentially troubling development, an AIDS vaccine tested in a closely watched trial might have increased the risk among vaccine recipients of becoming infected with H.I.V., researchers reported yesterday at a scientific meeting in Seattle.
But the researchers said not enough data existed to determine the meaning of the findings about the vaccine, which is made by Merck.
The increased risk was principally among a group of people who had pre-existing levels of immunity to a common cold virus known as adenovirus type 5, which was modified to become a critical part of the vaccine. Researchers emphasized that the vaccine itself could not cause AIDS, but one theory is that the cold virus may have activated the immune system in some way to make certain recipients more susceptible to becoming H.I.V.-infected when they were exposed to the AIDS virus.
But participants at the meeting also emphasized that the findings could be a statistical fluke and that nonbiological factors might have accounted for the difference. Examples of such factors are rates of circumcision and sexual practices among trial participants.
In late September, Merck unexpectedly halted the trial of its experimental H.I.V. vaccine because it failed in its two main objectives, to prevent infection and to lower the amount of H.I.V. in the blood among those who became infected.
The vaccine was being tested among 3,000 volunteers at high risk of developing AIDS in nine countries, including those at immunization centers organized by the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Mercks was seen as one of the most promising experimental AIDS vaccines to have been tested on people. Many scientists and advocates of AIDS research have called the failure of the experimental vaccine a major setback...
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Or....the immune system took apart the vaccine without benefiting from the HIV part...and then the recipients acted even more irresponsibly than usual.
We have a mind reader.
Too many victims of the drug tzars experiments - and we have become the guinea pigs = how many drugs in the past few years have proved lethal and been pulled?
Some that were prescribed to me, I never took after researching them - but two, vioxx (pulled) and Fosamax (which needs to be pulled) I took and am having pains in my jaw that may well be linked to it -
I refused to take HRT 30 years ago because of reports the doctors and drug tzars pooh-poohed but which have finally been addressed, altho' still used.
Baycol is just one of the statins proscribed to me that I wouldn't take - it was pulled...and the list goes on...
I have CHF, following a heart attack 10 years ago - I was getting progressively worse, which the doctors expect, until I researched the medicines I was on. I printed out reputable studies from Stanford and Johns Hopkins and got my doctor to change the prescription - and I threw away the statins - and started taking CoQ10, hawthorn, folic, magnesium and so forth - I have gotten steadily better over the years and the doctor cannot understand it - he doesn't want to hear about vitamins/supplements.
I'm not suggesting any of you follow my regime - I'm just relating what works for me...
It behooves us to take advantage of the incredible opportunity the net gives us to research for ourselves - after all, who do you think cares the most about you?
Anyone who has been paying attention knows that Dr. Duesburg was right all along.
If you have NOT been paying attention:
AIDS killed us all about twenty years ago.
Those feminists, Bible-Thumpers, and drug companies tried to warn us. But, we all died. And, there is no more third world. They are all dead.
Pandemic!
;)
AMEN!
Bible-Thumpers have been warning against perversion long before feminism ever existed or any drug companies for that matter.
When I was in college, I was asked to contribute to AIDS awareness and a cure. I said we were all aware of AIDS, and the cure was prevention. And old fashioned values were a lot better and cheaper than a vaccine.
Then the girl said, “Abstinance isn’t 100%.”
“Well, you could get raped and get AIDS!”
It went downhill from there.
Correct.
There will never ever be a successful HIV vaccine because HIV is not the cause of AIDS. This has been obvious to me for over 15 years and all the predictions of a "pandemic" have failed to come to pass. Read Duesburg if you really want to understand AIDS and the AIDS establishment.
How do you explain the vertical transmission from mother to child in this country being greatly reduced by giving the mothers antiretroviral drugs just prior to childbirth, or the great decrease in HIV/AIDS by screening the blood supply for HIV antibodies?
“remember if you get raped don’t forget to use protection”
What’s with the pic?
I think it’s a commentary on the argument you were disputing.
Black Helicopter
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