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AIDS Vaccine Is Partially Successful

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the not-sure-thirty-percent-is-gonna-cut-it dept.

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."

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  1. No hurry by 4D6963 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cool! Hopefully by the time I become sexually active it will have improved much more!

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    1. Re:No hurry by mcgrew · · Score: 4, Funny

      Cool! Hopefully by the time I become sexually active it will have improved much more!

      How I pity you young folks that never lived through the '70s. It was a GREAT time to be a nerd. Nerds were still paraihs, but hippies were "cool", and all a nerd had to do to become a hippie was to stop getting haircuts, buy a new pair of glasses, and throw away the pocket protectors. Birth control was cheap and effective, abortions had been legalized by the SCOTUS, and there were no STDs that couldn't be cured with a shot of pennicillin.

      It was the only decade in my life (maybe in history) where strange women would walk up and say "wanna fuck?" without wanting you to buy her twenty dollars worth of crack.

      Aids killed all that. God but I miss the seventies!

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  2. News for Nerds ? by alexhs · · Score: 4, Funny

    How is that news for nerds ?

    None of us will ever get laid, so that's not stuff that matters...

    </cliché>

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  3. the deffinition of an eon by TiggertheMad · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fortunately, that gives the the researchers plenty of time...

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  4. Warcraft is now considered foreplay by Enderandrew · · Score: 4, Funny

    I take it you haven't seen this ad.

    http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/878989144.html

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