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HIV Vaccine Trial Shows 90% Immune Response

fergus07 writes "Researchers at the Spanish Superior Scientific Research Council (CSIC) have successfully completed Phase I human clinical trials of a HIV vaccine in which 90% of volunteers developed an immunological response against the virus. The MVA-B vaccine draws on the natural capabilities of the human immune system and 'has proven to be as powerful as any other vaccine currently being studied, or even more,' says Mariano Esteban, head researcher from CSIC's National Biotech Centre."

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  1. Re:Great by AmazinglySmooth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Abstinence, combined with existing anti-retroviral therapies might actually extinguish HIV from the face of the earth in only a few decades, if used widely.

  2. awesome by rish87 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can finally go back to sharing needles. I gotta save money, what with the economy in the gutter.

  3. Science 1000000001, god 0 by hyades1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looks like the big, homophobic Guy in the Sky takes another one in the 'nads from our friends in the medical research community.

    I wonder what Pat Robinson's got to say about this. He's been remarkably quiet since all those tornadoes ripped through the Bible Belt, sucking up true believers like a vaccuum cleaner on meth.

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    I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
  4. Re:Great by somersault · · Score: 5, Funny

    It'll work fine if people teach it to their kids, grandkids, great grandkids and so on.

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    which is totally what she said