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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: metmom
I don't give heart disease and lung cancer to others by my lifestyle choices.

Not sure why that's relevant. The cost is the same, and taxpayers pay for heart disease and cancer research even though they're not transmissible. But, if you'd like, go look at common colds which you do pass on to others by your lifestyle choices. Colds may not usually kill, but they have a devastating economic impact.

61 posted on 03/21/2008 6:45:43 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker

“But why treat AIDS differently on FR than lung cancer,”

You are WAY OFF on this!

My Mother died of lung cancer, NEVER SMOKED IN HER LIFE!!!

THERE ARE MANY causes of cancer and heart disease not related to life style.

Can you SAY THAT ABOUT AIDS???


62 posted on 03/21/2008 6:46:14 AM PDT by ConfidentConservative
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To: Alter Kaker

I see. It’s for the chiiilllldruuunn.

Yeah. Right.

There’s still no excuse for the waste of time and resources to try to find a *cure* for a disease that can simply be stopped by the infected themselves, by lifestyle choices.

It’s totally reprehensible that they would demand a cure, but insist on continuing a behavior that they know will result in the deaths of others without it.

They should be charged with murder, cause that’s what they’re doing.


63 posted on 03/21/2008 6:46:34 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Alter Kaker

No, I didn’t accuse you or the president of anything.

Funding for HIV far outstrips any other lifestyle cure research. And lately, the demands from male homosexuals to stop the blood donation “discrimination” against them, despite the very real risks of transmitting HIV to uncounted innocents, is looking pretty suspicious.

And, can you tell me where I ever agreed with President Bush on everything?


64 posted on 03/21/2008 6:47:51 AM PDT by Judith Anne (I have no idea what to put here. Not a clue.)
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To: Judith Anne
You’re the one demanding to know why HIV is different from all other diseases, here on FR.

Correct. You said I was making some point of analyzing AIDS research or some such, which I wasn't, and then accused me of being gay.

You know the answer, you just want to get in a fight.

No, actually, Judy, I don't. That's why I asked the question.

65 posted on 03/21/2008 6:48:07 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Alter Kaker
I don't give heart disease and lung cancer to others by my lifestyle choices.

Not sure why that's relevant.

Metmom, if he doesn't see the difference, its a lost cause. Money spent on AIDS is a waste of money. The cure is already known.

66 posted on 03/21/2008 6:48:43 AM PDT by MrPiper
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To: Alter Kaker

Your wrong on all three.


69 posted on 03/21/2008 6:52:24 AM PDT by MrPiper
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To: Alter Kaker; Petronski
No, actually, Judy, I don't. That's why I asked the question.

I wish I had Petronski's laughing dog image to put here. That's hilarious!

70 posted on 03/21/2008 6:53:02 AM PDT by Judith Anne (I have no idea what to put here. Not a clue.)
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To: Alter Kaker

To be blunt, you’re going a long way to justify putting your penis in someone’s anus.


71 posted on 03/21/2008 6:53:26 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Alter Kaker

SHOW ME SOME DATA! TROLL


72 posted on 03/21/2008 6:54:42 AM PDT by ConfidentConservative
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To: Judith Anne
No, I didn’t accuse you or the president of anything.

No, you accused us of "adopting the LGBT/Rainbow position" (which position would that be? prone?) and accused me of secretly working to advance the "LGBT agenda," which, to my untrained ear, sounded awfully close to accusing President Bush and me of being gay. If treating HIV/AIDS seriously makes you gay, there are an awful lot of gay people out there...

73 posted on 03/21/2008 6:54:46 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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Gee, Judith Anne, you accused him of being gay? I looked but didn’t see that. Where did that happen?


74 posted on 03/21/2008 6:56:36 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: MrPiper

That never stopped a die-hard liberal.


75 posted on 03/21/2008 6:57:08 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Alter Kaker; Judith Anne

Why do you keep lying about her?


76 posted on 03/21/2008 6:57:50 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom; Alter Kaker

I didn’t accuse him or the President of anything. I guess I’m allowed to disagree, but maybe not. I’ll have to check my GLBT diplo protocol.


78 posted on 03/21/2008 6:59:45 AM PDT by Judith Anne (I have no idea what to put here. Not a clue.)
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To: ConfidentConservative

BTW, Welcome to FR. :D


79 posted on 03/21/2008 7:00:57 AM PDT by Judith Anne (I have no idea what to put here. Not a clue.)
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To: metmom

“Typical liberal victim mentality at work.”

Give him hell, metmom. Like always, you’re speaking for the majority of us here at FR.


80 posted on 03/21/2008 7:01:16 AM PDT by panaxanax (Writing in Duncan Hunter 2008!)
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