HIV Vaccine

The Sexecutioner writes "WebMD is reporting on a new vaccine which has had an incredible effect in clinical trials. The vaccine, composed of human dendrites holding dead HIV viruses, has dropped test patients' viral load by up to 90% in one year. Could this be it?"

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Time to quote the Peace Nobel Prize

[mirko]

original source here...

Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, today reiterated her claim that the AIDS virus was a deliberately created biological agent.

"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

"Us black people are dying more than any other people in this planet," Ms Maathai told a press conference in Nairobi a day after winning the prize for her work in human rights and reversing deforestation across Africa.

"It's true that there are some people who create agents to wipe out other people. If there were no such people, we could have not have invaded Iraq," she said.

"We invaded Iraq because we believed that Saddam Hussein had made, or was in the process of creating agents of biological warfare," said Ms Maathai.

"In fact it (the HIV virus) is created by a scientist for biological warfare," she added.

"Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious," Ms Maathai said.

Africa accounts for 25 million out of the estimated 38 million across the world infected with HIV, and the vast majority of infected Africans are women, according to UNAIDS estimates.

The United States on Friday congratulated Ms Maathai on winning the Nobel Peace Prize, but tempered its praise over her claims about AIDS.

"She said (HIV/AIDS) was invented as a bio-weapon in some laboratory in the West," a senior State Department official said.

"We don't agree with that."

The official pointed to a report of those comments published in August in Kenya's daily Standard newspaper, in which Ms Maathai was quoted as saying that HIV/AIDS was created by scientists for the purpose of mass extermination.

There's a preventive vaccine already

[melted]

It's called, "Don't have sex with random people". Works fine for most of Earth's population.

Re:Welcome to capitalism

[StillAnonymous]

Sure it's fact, but it's also how you look at it.

I look at it this way:

These pharma corps are just another greedy conglomorate whose sole purpose is to extract as much money from the public as they can (appease the shareholders and all). If that means developing drugs that fight symptoms instead of curing the disease, they'll do it. If that means convincing people that there's something wrong with them through a barrage of commercials, and that a drug will help them, they'll do it. If it means letting people who can't afford the drug flat out die, they'll do it.

But hey, it fits within the framework of capitalism, so it's all good and ethical, right?

It is the "dept of OFFENSE", not "dept of DEFENSE"

[Cryofan]

THe American military is NOT used to defend Americans. It is used to grab more profits for multinational corporations (so they can use the money to outsource our jobs); it is used to put down democratic leftist governments (to serve as an example to other countries that might want to do the same), so that the wealthy of the world do not have to worry about losing their billions.

Our military has never been used to defend the American mainland.

It will be squashed...

[SJ]

AIDS/HIV is one of the few major diseases/viruses that is helping to keeps the worlds population down. With that gone, I guess we can expect something more potent next time round.

Nature knows best...

Re:It will be squashed...

[DarkKnightRadick]

I've been saying that for years and pretty much use that rationale as a reason to cut aid to third-world countries.