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First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the baby-steps dept.

rbarreira writes "Xinhua online is reporting on the success of the first trial phase of an AIDS vaccine, which was started on March 2005. From the article: '"Forty-nine healthy people who received the injection showed no severe adverse reactions after 180 days, proving the vaccine was safe," said Zhang Wei, head of the pharmaceutical registration department of the SFDA. "The recipients appeared immune to the HIV-1 virus 15 days after the injection, indicating the vaccine worked well in stimulating the body's immunity," he told the press conference.' After the results are further analyzed, 800 more voluntaries may be needed for the second and third phases of the vaccine's trial."

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  1. pool's closed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If this goes well we won't have to close the pools.

  2. Re:49 people + 180 days = proof?? by jeremymiles · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, safe as in "Forty nine healthy people who went up in a space shuttle came back home fine, which proves it's safe".

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  3. Re:49? by debilo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Really, we're supposed to believe the study had exactly 49 participants? Not 50, or 150?

    Pssst, there were 150 participants, but 101 of them died.

  4. First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful by McGiraf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck!

    1. Re:First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful by QRDeNameland · · Score: 5, Funny

      "I dunno how much AIDS scare y'all, but I got a theory - the day they come out with a cure for AIDS. Guaranteed, one-shot cure. On that day, there's gonna be fucking in the streets, man. It's over! Who're you? C'mere! What's your name, baby? No, it's over, yeah, woo-hoo! Man, if you can't get laid on that day, cut it off."

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    2. Re:First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful by McGiraf · · Score: 3, Funny

      That will be a great day for herpes, siphylis, crabs, pregnancies, clamedia ....

    3. Re:First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful by MarkRose · · Score: 4, Funny

      That will be a great day for herpes, siphylis, crabs, pregnancies, clamedia ....

      I felt a disturbance in the force. It is as if the fantasies of millions of slashdotters were suddenly silenced.

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  5. Re:49 people + 180 days = proof?? by debilo · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think that even with birth defects a cure for AIDS would be useful.

    Plus, for all we know, most males lack a uterus.

  6. Re:49 people + 180 days = proof?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    Plus, how do they test immunity?
    The subjects engage in sex! Lots of sex! With random people. For science of course.
  7. Well duh this IS Slashdot... by Chaffar · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hate to be a dink, but we've had a way to completely control this infection for about 20 years now; it's called abstinence

    No need to preach abstinence here; we at Slashdot have been abstaining from sex all our lives (not by choice though :)

  8. Re:49 people + 180 days = proof?? by RsG · · Score: 3, Funny
    most males lack a uterus.
    And the rest got theirs on ebay?
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  9. AYDS by porkmusket · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was overweight and embarrassed to go anyplace. AYDS helped me get back into a size 12.

    Mod me off-topic, I don't care. That video is funny shit.