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Possible Breakthrough for AIDS Cure

kryonD writes "Researchers believe they have found a new compound that could finally kill the HIV/AIDS virus, not just slow it down as current treatments do. While most of the community is still hesitant to comment on this until it passes peer review, initial results show that their method attacks and kills ALL variations of the virus. A fast track through the FDA could have one of the world's leading problems licked in less than a decade."

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  1. Re:Don't do it by kaffiene · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    fuckwit AC's like you, I spose

  2. Re:but... by JeffSh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    meh, i have enough karma to last me until the second coming!

  3. Re:Drug overuse by RoadDoggFL · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If smallpox is eradicated, then why am I going to have to get a vaccine before going to Korea?

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  4. Re:Raised eyebrows by drsmithy · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    You forgot option 3:

    Thanks to the miracle of "Intellectual Property", it could be both fast and cheap to manufacture _and_ demand can exceed artificially restricted supply, making it "expensive as hell" (and highly profitable) !

  5. Re:Raised eyebrows by j-cloth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All scepticism on the discovery aside, are you suggesting that anyone consider not making something like this widely available when the monetary cost would likely be less than 3 days in Iraq?

  6. +1? by autopr0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's odd that this comment was modded down as "overrated", it looks like someone whent through my history and dumped all their negative mod points on me. Not that I'm worried, in the past 24 comments I've been modded up 8 times, I'm just pointing out how lame whoever's doing it is.

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