Comments on: Nobel Winner: HIV Vaccine Within 5 Years

Therapeutic Vaccine - For Those Already Infected - Would Be Step Toward Preventative Shot

[rf35]

Well, soon-to-come vaccine or no, AIDS has been a major disappointment. This planet needs a virus or other disease capable of wiping out billions, not just a few million. The global population must be dropped to around 1 billion if the planet is to survive. Anything beyond that is unsustainable in the long run. A population of 6.6 billion (and rapidly climbing) is self-terminating. Humans are literally breeding themselves into extinction.

[oneworldusa]

I don''t think AIDS exists. Its like the Bird Flu and Global Warming. All just fear mongers looking to make a buck based public fear propaganda. Regardless, practice good hygiene and sanitary practices and there should be nothing or little to fear, right?

[Meg003]

I guess it gets so much attention so people can screw around without worry. It seems yet another form of greed.

Posted by cbsfan7331

You may be right. After all, we couldn''t expect people to accept any responsibility for their behavior and its consequences without telling them to stop indulging their every want.

[simonf4-2009]

luc is a great virologist, but no immunologist. if you''d ask any viral immunologist working on HIV, then they''d disagree.

yes, some individuals have been identified to produce neutralizing Abs to HIV, but creating vaccines that allow B cell responses to produce these NAbs are far from achievable. CD8 vaccines apparently won''t suffice, as seen from the STEP trial. simply speaking, HIGHLY unlikely and overly optimistic.

unless there are unexpected breakthroughs, it''ll take another decade if we''re lucky.

[lawyertom1]

It would be wonderful if this prediction had even a modest chance of being successful. However, given the history of HIV vaccines to date, I believe the good scientist is more than a little overly optimistic.

[Meg003]

Why are we spending tremendous sums on a disease that can be prevented very easily? Why not focus on incurable diseases that are not preventable with very minimal changes in behavior?

[jbaker314]

I remain highly sceptical that any kind of HIV vaccine is even possible, much less likely within the next five years. The article is wrong in referring to HIV as a "virus". It is NOT a virus. It is a "retrovirus", which is an entirely different thing. A retrovirus is also responsible for some varieties of leukemia. We are able, at tremendous costs, to limit the number deaths attributable to HIV. Will we be able to develop a vaccine, theraputic or otherwise? Probably. But I believe that five years is unrealistic. A century is probably more on line with reality.

[oigen]

HIV is a scam. Tell me. How can African Americans have this so called plaque ten times more than white people and twenty times more than Asians? Are they ten to twenty times more promiscuous? Are their sexual proclivities any different? Hardly. The inventors of HIV are so lost that they have to resort to experiments using hapless children of visible minorities as guinea pigs to come up with a Hail Mary "vaccine"
...See video...http://www.tinyurl.com/6g76hn....
And all for a virus which by using the same mumbo jumbo statistical models as they use today was supposed to have dispatched practically the whole of mankind by the year 2000. None of their predictions ever came true and they never will.

[crowtrob1]

actually renrenjuan, cd4+ t-cells are lysed in the acute phase leading to a significant drop in immune response, also, when t-cells remain activated for a long time, they are more susceptible to apoptosis-programmed cell death- a suicide program. we really need to improve science education in this country.

[silverstar06]

Posted by amrt5016 at 10:57 AM : Dec 07, 2008
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Being a scientist coming from the top of the game, how and where did AIDS start? How was it able to spread so rapidly across the whole world? You trained professionals want to still attribute monkeys to it''s spreading, and expect all lay people to believe such nonsense. Simply because you have established yourselves on top of your own made pyramid in the sky.