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Live-Virus Vaccine Blocks AIDS In Monkeys

Posted by timothy on from the still-a-long-way-to-go dept.

joestump98 writes: "Using a weakened form of a virus commonly found in livestock and engineered to carry AIDS virus protiens, researchers have successfully protected monkeys from the deadly disease. They say it holds great promise for humans. The lead researcher says he hopes to have FDA approval within a year(!) and wishes they could start working with the drug in areas devastated by AIDS right away."

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  1. hmph. by hamburger+lady · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The lead researcher says he hopes to have FDA approval within a year(!)and wishes they could start working with the drug in areas devastated by AIDS right away.

    well, the areas most affected by AIDS are in sub-saharan africa. so why be so concerned with the FDA?

    just saying.

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    1. Re:hmph. by david614 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I think that there are guidelines when US-based researchers take the results of biological research overseas for "field tests."

      Lest we get an international repeat of the "Tuskeegee Experiment."

      Email me if you don't know what that was.

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