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Biotech / Medical : ADVR - Bulls no Bears
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To: Bernie Bildman who wrote (853)10/13/1997 2:56:00 PM
From: Bernie Bildman   of 913
 
HAMBURG (Reuters) - The scientist credited with having co-discovered
the virus that causes AIDS told a European conference in Hamburg he
believed a proper vaccine was still a long way off.

"The search is proving more and more difficult because the HIV virus is
changing all the time," French researcher Luc Montagnier told the
conference on the disease late on Sunday, adding that he thought no
vaccine likely for some years yet.

He said many pharmaceutical companies had already cancelled
programmes to develop an HIV vaccine.

Montagnier told around 2,500 delegates that while some animals had
been made resistant to HIV in tests, applying this to humans was
proving difficult and involved separate medical risks.

Nonetheless, he said he was optimistic significant progress in the
treatment of humans was likely within five to 10 years.

Doctors who have volunteered to inject themselves to test an
experimental AIDS vaccine were warned earlier this month that they ran
serious risk of catching the disease.

The warning came after at least one monkey infected with a similar
vaccine, based on a genetically-altered virus, later came down with
AIDS.

Some 22 million people across the world are estimated to be living either
with HIV or with the full Acquired Immune Defiency Syndrome (AIDS).
AIDS-related deaths have reached some six million.
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