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HIV Vaccine

Posted by samzenpus on from the a-step-in-the-right-direction dept.

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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  1. I Hope not. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It s horrible thing to say but I was hoping AIDS could push world population down to a mangeable level. Not to say individual loss of life isn't a traggic and wasteful thing but massive overpopulation is more death by environmetal poison, starvation, and maybe super-bugs in the long run.

  2. aww...good try by codergeek42 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    composed of human dendrites holding dead HIV viruses

    Shouldn't it be "virii"?

  3. Time to quote the Peace Nobel Prize by mirko · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    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.
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  4. Yeah! by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hooray!

    *throws away condoms and calls your mom.*

  5. Re:Mixed feeling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If you have sex with the first stranger who comes to your house, you are not a victim anymore. The only victims of HIV are those who got an infected blood transfusion by "mistake".

  6. There's a preventive vaccine already by melted · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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

    1. Re:There's a preventive vaccine already by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Don't be gay. Don't use IV drugs. Don't be African. If you think you can avoid all that, your odds of getting struck by lightning are better than of getting AIDS. And it's going to stay that way in every developed country but Russia.

  7. Re:Welcome to capitalism by StillAnonymous · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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?

  8. It is the "dept of OFFENSE", not "dept of DEFENSE" by Cryofan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

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  9. It will be squashed... by SJ · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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...

    1. Re:It will be squashed... by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: 0, Flamebait

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

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      "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Proverbs 16:25 (NKJV)
  10. Re:Wait, a vaccine? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    This just further makes me believe that Hitler had the right idea, but the wrong religion.

  11. Re:Mixed feeling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Fucking cunt bush babies, they should use them for snake food like the rats they are.