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Vaccine could reduce HIV to 'minor infection'... maybe



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I'll believe it when I see it, but this news has been bopping around for a day now, so figured I would at least mention it. From the Telegraph:

Spanish researchers found that 22 of 24 healthy people (92 per cent) developed an immune response to HIV after being given their MVA-B vaccine.
"If this genetic cocktail passes Phase II and Phase III future clinic trials, and makes it into production, in the future HIV could be compared to herpes virus nowadays."

By that he meant HIV could become a "minor chronic infection" that only resulted in disease when the immune system was otherwise compromised.

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