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."

Comments

Re:90% chance that prostitue won't kill you

[BradleyUffner]

Healthy relationships would kill HIV 100%, not 90.

Meanwhile, back in reality....

Re:Great

[AmazinglySmooth]

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.

Re:Great

[sulimma]

Abstinence will actually extinguish the whole human race from the face of the earth in only a few decades, if used widely.

Re:Great

[medv4380]

I'd be learly of this until Phase II and Phase III are completed. Developing an Immune response is different then having a successful vaccine. The antibodies have to be ones that will help in eradicating the infection, and since HIV mutates so rapidly there is no grantee that it will work long term in world wide eradication.

awesome

[rish87]

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

Re:Great

[somersault]

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

Re:90% chance that prostitue won't kill you

[jimbolauski]

In the US there has been one known HIV transmission through blood transfusion in the last 8 years the chances of getting HIV from a blood transfusion are 1 in 1,500,000. 1 in 400 people who get stuck with a needle or cut with a sharp from a person with HIV contract the virus there have been 57 cases of health care workers getting HIV at work there are 12,000,000 health care workers. Getting HIV is not that easy mostly bad decisions have to be made to get HIV. The chances that you get HIV from a source besides sex and sharing needles is too small to consider 0.000002% you have a better chance of dieing from constipation.