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Researchers Close In on HIV Vaccine

Postby Lit » Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:14 pm

Discovery Helps Researchers Close In on HIV Vaccine

(July 8 ) -- American scientists are touting a major stride toward a vaccine that can ward off HIV, after finding two key proteins that neutralize 91 percent of the virus' 190 strains.

The team of researchers with the National Institutes of Health's Vaccine Research Center hopes the antibody discovery can spur successful work toward a method of preventing HIV, which already afflicts an estimated 33 million people worldwide.

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Postby fig head » Fri Jul 09, 2010 1:19 pm

well done.. hope they can find a cure..

saw a picture of a person with HIV on some weird website that had that topic about STD`s !! and man it looked horrible !!!
way far way than looking disgusting and full of massive spots.. eeewww..

this is what happen when u have sex with no protection !!!..

as my best friend says a candom on the back pocket in a must
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Re: Researchers Close In on HIV Vaccine

Postby Oracle » Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:32 pm

Lit wrote: ... American scientists are touting a major stride toward a vaccine that can ward off HIV, after finding two key proteins that neutralize 91 percent of the virus' 190 strains.


Watch that remaining 9% take off as the fittest ...
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