Nobel Winner: HIV Vaccine Within 5 Years
Therapeutic Vaccine - For Those Already Infected - Would Be Step Toward Preventative Shot
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French scientist Luc Montagnier is seen in this June 5, 2006 file photo. Montagnier is one of the discoverers of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and a winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for medicine. He believes that an AIDS vaccine will be available within five years. (AP Photo/Jacque Brinon)
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Luc Montagnier, of France, told reporters in Sweden that he believed it was "a matter of 4 to 5 years" before a therapeutic vaccine to treat HIV infection is developed. He did not elaborate as to why he believed scientists were close.
Scientists have developed lifesaving drugs that can inhibit the disease, but there is no vaccine to prevent or treat HIV infection. Finding a vaccine has proved elusive in the past, with the most recent trials ending in failure.
However, a therapeutic vaccine would be a key step in fighting the virus, he said. A therapeutic vaccine would be given to people who are already infected, in order to lessen the impact of the disease while a preventative vaccine would, ideally, protect people from HIV.
So far, scientists have focused on drugs to fight the disease because they have been proving effective. In developed countries, AIDS has become manageable, rather than fatal, because of the drugs.
HIV was first identified 25 years ago, but still poses difficult challenges. Scientists cannot explain, for example, why it causes the immune system to collapse.
Montagnier, together with other Nobel laureates, began arriving in Stockholm on Saturday ahead of a week of Nobel festivities that culminates with a lavish banquet and awards ceremony Dec. 10.
The 76-year old scientist shares one half the $1.2 million prize with 61-year-old Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, also of France, for their research on HIV. The other half goes to Germany's Harald zur Hausen, 72, for showing a viral cause for cervical cancer.
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf will hand over the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Wednesday along with the awards in chemistry, physics, literature and economics. The Nobel Peace Prize is presented at a separate ceremony in Oslo, Norway.
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Are you really as ignorant as your comment suggests?
The same applies to the fake verb "orientate". The verb is "orient", and the NOUN "orientation".
Chalk these up along with "nuke-you-lar" instead of "nu-cle-ar".
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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.
...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.
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.
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.
The main problem seems to be with the FDA in gaining final approval of current vaccines already available.
Cel-Sci.com has had 3 patents on such potential drugs since 2001:
http://www.bio-medicine.org/medicine-news-1/CEL-SCI-Presents-Favorable-Data-for-Leaps-Vaccine-Technology-at-Prestigious-Immunology-Conference-21315-2/
My apologies for the previous link I inserted. This is the one I should have used:
http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/intellectual-property/812789-1.html
Posted by corey2444 at 06:17 AM
You say that like it''s a bad thing. You WANT them reproducing? I, for one, approve of their lifestyle: risky behavior that could lead to life-threatening illness and no chance of kids from their activities.
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Posted by rf35
rft35, I agree completely with you, and I think you should be the first to go. Thank you so much for volunteering. I feel so proud that you and people who think like you will step up to take one for the team.
It''s very noble of you, and I''m sure the rest of the population will appreciate you and your like-minded friend''s sacrifice.
Thanks again,
Posted by sockpuppet4 at 09:43 AM : Dec 08, 2008
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you such an ignorant person!!!all the post you write have no sense, stop posting blog and go speculate in your kitchen with your fruits and vegetables
Conspiracy theory are good for the media, as human kind we need to go further those idea and protect each other instead of blaming consistantly and looking for excuses.
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by rf35
December 9, 2008 4:25 AM PST
- rf35, I agree completely with you, and I think you should be the first to go. Thank you so much for volunteering. I feel so proud that you and people who think like you will step up to take one for the team.
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See all 29 CommentsIt''s very noble of you, and I''m sure the rest of the population will appreciate you and your like-minded friend''s sacrifice.
Thanks again,
Posted by nycsense at 09:41 AM : Dec 08, 2008
Actually, I am far too busy educating those who can''t wrap their minds around the concept of responsible reproduction to depart the planet. If I prevent just two conceptions, I feel I have offset my own presence and I have prevented far more than two. And yes, I have chosen not to add to the problem by having multiple children of my own.
One of two things will happen to humanity if we can''t get our population down by limiting reproduction on our own. Either the Earth''s "immune system" will kick in and do it for us, possibily to the point of extinction or we will, like a deadly parasite, kill the "host." Either reaction results in massive human suffering. Since, despite the efforts of people like me to limit population through education and outreach, the majority people can''t seem to get their breeding under control, I am hoping for the "immune system" option. At least this offers some hope for long-term survivle as a species.