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AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful
ifchairscouldtalk writes "A Phase III 'RV 144' study in Thailand succeeded in reducing HIV infection rate in trial with 31.2% effectiveness. The study was conducted by the Thailand Ministry of Public Health and used strains of HIV common in Thailand. It is not clear whether the vaccine, which combines AIDSVAX with Aventis Pasteur ALVAC-HIV canarypox vector, known as 'vCP1521,' would work against other strains in the United States, Africa or elsewhere. Strangely, the vaccine had no effect on levels of HIV in the blood of those who did become infected, providing 'one of the most important and intriguing findings' of the trial, according to Dr Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is one of the trial's sponsors."
Cool! Hopefully by the time I become sexually active it will have improved much more!
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How is that news for nerds ?
None of us will ever get laid, so that's not stuff that matters...
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Formerly known as not successful.
I... don't recall the world ever being black and white. I'm pretty sure what you're doing is called "oversimplifying".
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Fortunately, that gives the the researchers plenty of time...
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But I thought AIDS was sent by God as a scourge of teh gheys. So God must hate the 68.8% it doesn't work for, then.
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I take it you haven't seen this ad.
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I have developed my own vaccine to HIV!
Simply subscribing to Slashdot makes you statistically 50% less susceptible to HIV!
I will take my 1 million dollar award in ten 100,000 dollar bills.
Seriously the study needs to be repeated and verified before anyone gets too excited.
It is not surprising that this was developed in Thailand due to the large sex trade there. Which makes me wonder about the demographic of the test subjects. Because of the large number of sex trade workers, any significant number in one group or the other will taint the results. If they were ALL sex trade workers that would be something different, however the article does not examine that detail. It could be that one group just happened to get 30% more sex trade workers than the other.
Also Slashdot I hate you and your stupid editor (not the person, the thing I am trying to type in).
You should still take precautions. Plenty of the tourists to Thailand do, by only sleeping with girls under 14. That means the girls have only had 5-6 years or so to contract the disease.
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Heh. Look who posted this story. CmdrTaco. I don't think that is a coincidence, do you?
Wouldn't the world be a much nicer place if you could sleep with whoever you want
Absolutely not! God wants you to only have sex with your wife, whom you married in a church, which cost thousands of dollars!
Every time a man ejaculates outside of his wife (in the missionary position) it's murder of a child which might be otherwise conceived, or might be a born a bastard, and then cannot get into heaven (as per Deuteronomy 23:2)!
Using birth control is *MURDER*, and not using birth control with someone who is not your wife is *WORSE* than *MURDER* because it damns the child's soul!