Aids virus vaccine 'could remove ALL traces of disease from sufferers for the rest of their lives'

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From the Daily Mail:

>>An experimental drug helped monkeys with a form of the Aids virus control the infection for more than a year, suggesting it may lead to a vaccine for people, or even a cure.

Researchers said Cytomegalovirus (CMV) works by priming the immune system to quickly attack the HIV virus when it first enters the body, a point at which the virus is most vulnerable.

Dr Louis Picker of the Oregon National Primate Research Centre, whose study appears in the journal Nature, said he thinks it will be possible to have a vaccine ready to test in people within three years.<<

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1385962/AIDS-vaccine-remove-traces-disease-sufferers.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Holy cow! Please, please let this be true!

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2. While this is potentially fantastic news, the source is very unreliable. n/t

[HuckleB]

3. Yeah, I'm not sure why research done in Oregon needs to be linked to via the Daily Fail.

http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/news_events/news/2011/05-09-non-human-primate-studie.cfm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511134217.htm

:hi:

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5. While the Daily Mail is basically a scandal sheet, you have to wonder why

such an important development doesn't appear to have been covered in the US MSM.

[nilram]

4. Here's a more reliable source

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110511134217.htm

Looks like a lightly-edited press release.


on edit: oops, intended to be a reply to one of the replies above. shrug.