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Vaccine Failure Means Setback in AIDS Fight
FOXNews.com ^ | Friday, March 21, 2008 | FOXNews.com

Posted on 03/21/2008 5:39:05 AM PDT by metmom

The two-decade search for an AIDS vaccine is in crisis after two field tests of the most promising contender not only did not protect people from the virus but may actually have put them at increased risk of becoming infected, The Washington Post reported.

Experts are questioning the overall strategy and scientific premises of the nearly $500 million in AIDS vaccine research funded annually by the government after the two field tests were halted last September and seven other trials of AIDS vaccines have either been stopped or put off indefinitely.

The recently closed studies, STEP and Phambili, were halted when it became clear the STEP study was futile and possibly harmful.

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KEYWORDS: aids; hiv; homosexualagenda; vaccine
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To: ffusco

Thanks. I guess we all know you just a little bit better now.


341 posted on 03/25/2008 9:18:19 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ffusco
Most Gays want stable monogamous relationships like everyone else.

Uh-huh.
342 posted on 03/25/2008 9:22:38 AM PDT by ZX12R
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To: ZX12R

Another “expert” I see.


343 posted on 03/25/2008 9:46:11 AM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: ffusco; panaxanax; trisham

What a bunch of crap.

Twenty years ago, gays had all the rights of any other legal citizen in this country. What they didn’t have was special rights like now, which they shouldn’t have.

The mantra of gays is that what’s done in the privacy of their own bedrooms is nobody else’s business, and I couldn’t agree more. Keep it there.

Don’t go telling me how it’s none of my business and then go announcing to the whole world what you’re doing. I’m not interested. If gays didn’t go around announcing their disgusting lifestyle to everyone else and trying to force others to accept the abnormal as normal, they wouldn’t get any backlash.

If gays are going to be in your face about their lifestyle, I’m going to be in theirs and tell them I don’t like it and don’t want to hear about it and they shouldn’t get protected citizen class.

Nor do I believe that the majority of them are interested in long term monogamous relationships. That option has always been available to them. If they wanted to stay together they could without a marriage ceremony, it’s their choice. If they wanted their partner to inherit their stuff when they died, that’s what wills can be used for.

They’re the ones making the issue of it. If they’d just drop the political PC crap agenda, they’d find life a lot more tolerable. Nobody would pick on them for what they didn’t know about.


344 posted on 03/25/2008 7:26:42 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: ffusco; trisham

Calling someone a hateful b#tch isn’t hateful?

Let me guess, you consider yourself tolerant, too.


345 posted on 03/25/2008 7:30:54 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: ffusco
Trish the b#tch implyed I was a homosexual as did another jerk on thim thread.

We understand. It's not you, it's a relative. Right. Got it.

347 posted on 03/25/2008 9:14:24 PM PDT by Judith Anne (I have no idea what to put here. Not a clue.)
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To: Judith Anne

I wasn’t even talking to you was I?


348 posted on 03/25/2008 9:20:14 PM PDT by ffusco (Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
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To: ffusco
I wasn’t even talking to you was I?

I was pinged to your remarks by another poster. Do you expect me to ask you for permission to post?

349 posted on 03/25/2008 9:29:07 PM PDT by Judith Anne (I have no idea what to put here. Not a clue.)
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To: metmom

The big problem, with AIDS, is the initial infection with HIV leads to an auto-immune destruction of the T-helper cells. A vaccine might also initiate the auto-immune response, especially if it is keyed to the particular protein sequence, in the HIV virus, associated with the initiation of the auto immune response.

It may possible to develop a vaccine that will key to a different protein sequence of the HIV virus. If that can be done, the vaccine would a lower probability of initiating the auto-immune response that leads to AIDS.

Still, avoiding sexual promiscuity is the best preventive measure.


351 posted on 03/25/2008 11:17:25 PM PDT by punster
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To: ffusco
I didn't imply you were a homosexual. My post was in response to what appeared to me to be a very sympathetic portrayal of homosexuality and the homosexual lifestyle.

Regardless, may I say that your temper is apparently only exceeded by your limited vocabulary.

352 posted on 03/26/2008 5:01:27 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: metmom
We’re not interested in being *educated*

Truer words were never written.

353 posted on 03/27/2008 2:07:14 PM PDT by onewhowatches
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