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Broad and Potent Neutralizing Antibodies from an African Donor Reveal a New HIV-1 Vaccine Target
1 posted on 09/05/2009 8:36:44 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

This bit of news should titillate all the “alternative lifestyle” aficionados.


2 posted on 09/05/2009 8:42:01 PM PDT by doc1019 (Obama? Not so much.)
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To: neverdem

Those evil profit dollars hard at work hu? I guess with obamacare the cure will never be finished.


3 posted on 09/05/2009 8:49:23 PM PDT by joesjane (The strength of the pack is the wolf - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: neverdem

Fascinating. This is about a great deal more than HIV. The mechanisms for the broader expression of the immune response are a little murky but it appears that over time they can account for viral variation if not quite catch up to it. If the infectious agent is held more or less in stasis (as such treatments as protease inhibitors are designed to do) then what happens after the body does catch up? I’ll be watching this one - thanks for posting.


4 posted on 09/05/2009 8:50:52 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: neverdem
"Approximately 33 million people worldwide are infected with the HIV virus (above)"

Hmmm. Apparently, 25 million of them live in sub-Saharan Africa.
18 million have died in the sub Saharan Africa, over what I gather is the last 10 years, 3 million of which were children. That means 15 million children have been orphaned because of the deaths of 15 million of their parents.

The population Of Africa is 922 million (as of 2005) which means 2.7% of the population have aids. and about 1.8% of the population have died of aids over the past ten years. or about .2% per year.

Something just doesn't sound right here. I think it has to do with the tens of billions of dollars that seem to vanish into thin air every year.

5 posted on 09/05/2009 9:06:41 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: neverdem
This article is an excellent primer on a HIV vaccine:

http://denbeste.nu/essays/hiv.shtml

6 posted on 09/05/2009 9:09:52 PM PDT by gura (R-MO)
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To: neverdem

I’d rather them come out with a cancer vaccine.


10 posted on 09/05/2009 11:45:57 PM PDT by diamond6 (Is SIDS preventable? www.Stopsidsnow.com)
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