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Pastimes : THE COFFEE SHOP--A place to discuss Minute Subjects
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To: Ish who wrote (23121)8/11/1999 6:00:00 PM
From: Mephisto  Read Replies (1) of 24894
 
Correction of my message to U about MERCK:

Merck will begin testing an experimental vaccine on humans later on this year for AIDS.

But they also work on drug for Alzheimer's Disease!!!!

I think of MERCK as the of CIA of the drug companies. It's hard to find out what they are up to. The Wall Street Journal reported that the company had worked under top secret conditions on the vaccine that might eventually prevent people from coming down with Aids.

"an article in Friday's Wall Street Journal, which said Merck was planning to begin the first human tests of two promising experimental vaccines for use against AIDS developed as part of a secretive research effort.

Merck's top vaccine executive, Emilio Emini, said the company planned to begin administering the vaccines in a small number of healthy, uninfected volunteers by year's end.

The executive, Emilio Emini, told the WSJ the human tests would be undertaken to help Merck scientists determine if the vaccines could produce in people the kind of immune-system reaction generated in animal studies.

Several other companies are testing prototype vaccines in large and small trials in the United States and abroad. But one of the Merck vaccines will be among the first among a class of so-called ``naked DNA' vaccines for HIV to go intohumans.
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``Naked DNA' is potentially revolutionary because it stimulates both arms of the immune system, antibodies and T-cells,which are immune cells made by the thymus gland.

Traditional vaccines only stimulate antibodies.
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