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AIDS Turnaround: Researchers Suddenly Upbeat Over Vaccine.(Brief Article)

Vaccine Weekly

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2001 SEP 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --

The scientists trying to create a vaccine to prevent AIDS suddenly seem optimistic, even bullish - words that have not been heard much in this perennially gloomy field.

For the first time, many researchers appear confident a vaccine is possible.

More than anything else, monkeys are responsible for the change in attitude. Scientists have long used monkeys to test theories about AIDS treatment and prevention. But in two decades of trying, they could not concoct a vaccine that would safely protect a monkey from dying of AIDS. Until now.

Now there are monkeys like Godot, a handsome, blond, ...

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