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Los Alamos National Laboratory Moves to Final Testing of AIDS Vaccine
« on: April 06, 2011, 03:38:40 PM »
http://www.lanl.gov/news/stories/aids_vaccine_in_final_testing.html

"Twenty years after HIV geneticist Bette Korber first began tackling HIV, her hard work—some would say "obsession"—may be finally paying off as she and her team gear up for the first round of human trials of an HIV vaccine."

AIDS: now even less scary.
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Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory Moves to Final Testing of AIDS Vaccine
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2011, 03:48:10 PM »
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Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory Moves to Final Testing of AIDS Vaccine
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2011, 07:26:24 PM »
Don't let the propagandists fool you, AIDS is still pretty damned scary, even with the anti-viral meds.

First off, the meds cost thousands of dollars per month.  Without the meds, you die in a nasty fashion, pretty quickly.  If they get too sick to work or just can't afford them, we pay for it via medicaid.  Last I heard, it was $3500+/month.  I make some pretty good scratch, but I could not afford that.

Second, the meds are very hard on the body.  Some folks just can't tolerate them.  Some are/were cancer chemotherapy drugs.  Some compensate by using anabolic steroids & meth to counter the debilitating effects and they come with their own dangers.  Some folks tough it out, but get killed by the drugs.  They ain't no picnic.

Third, AIDS dementia complex comes along after the HIV virus has time to saturate the nerves.  Incidence is down from ~30% of HIV+ to about 10%, nowadays, with the meds.


It is not a disease I would wish on anyone.  I hope there is an effective vaccine, PDQ.
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Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory Moves to Final Testing of AIDS Vaccine
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2011, 07:54:48 PM »
This is all true, but I was talking about the statistical aspect, not the 'how horrible the disease is ' aspect. Smallpox was horrible, but I am not afraid of smallpox.
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Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory Moves to Final Testing of AIDS Vaccine
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2011, 07:56:45 PM »
To add to my comment:

In the military language, this is now 1943 in the war on AIDS. The evemy have already been halted at several fronts, and LANL is working on a new superweapon.
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Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory Moves to Final Testing of AIDS Vaccine
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Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory Moves to Final Testing of AIDS Vaccine
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2011, 08:41:50 PM »

Excellent.  As Americans, we should never yield to anything.  Always improving, always moving forward. 
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Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory Moves to Final Testing of AIDS Vaccine
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2011, 09:01:38 PM »
Quote from: MicroBalrog on April 06, 2011, 08:01:02 PM
You called?

thank you  that was news to me. i know many many folks dead from hep c  and many more ill
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Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory Moves to Final Testing of AIDS Vaccine
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Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory Moves to Final Testing of AIDS Vaccine
« Reply #9 on: July 06, 2011, 07:18:40 PM »
The date on that article notwithstanding, that is extremely dated news with regards to HIV-focused research. Genetic sector based attacks toward HIV have been the center of study since the early 90s, with multiple "Institute of X"s being founded since, all regrettably using the same research. The main problem is that there hasn't been much progress in the time since the original findings, instead the same issue crops up time and again - the vulnerable areas are, unfortunately, not part of the immutable/"engine" code of HIV, it appears. =|

Fortunately, as stated in the article, they are low mutation areas, but not zero. As Mr. Barouch said, "The hypothesis remains to be tested."



Still, I'd like to think that this sort of progress will find a way to avoid being lumped in with the "10 years away" things such as cold fusion.  ;)
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Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory Moves to Final Testing of AIDS Vaccine
« Reply #10 on: July 06, 2011, 07:23:46 PM »
See? All we had to do was let Obama restore science to its rightful place, and start funding embryonic stem-cell research, and - oh, wait...
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Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory Moves to Final Testing of AIDS Vaccine
« Reply #11 on: July 06, 2011, 08:24:57 PM »
Is this a nukular vaccine ???
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Re: Los Alamos National Laboratory Moves to Final Testing of AIDS Vaccine
« Reply #12 on: July 07, 2011, 07:28:00 AM »
Glad to hear about all the progress....AIDS & Hep C are pretty devastating diseases....
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