This looks promising! It also argues for the secure preservation of such dangerous viri as smallpox.
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/131/118177.htm?ecd=wnl_day_021207 "An AIDS vaccine that uses a genetically engineered smallpox virus to boost anti-HIV immunity looks promising in early tests on humans. In animal tests, the vaccine did not protect monkeys against infection with an AIDS virus. But vaccinated animals remained healthy -- and suffered no immune damage from the deadly virus. Now, nine humans have received small doses of the vaccine: about one-tenth of the full dose. The vaccine was safe. And even at this tiny dose, it stimulated the kind of immune responses that protected monkeys... ...It's a two-part vaccine. First, a person gets two doses of a DNA vaccine carrying three important HIV genes called env, gag, and pol. Then a person gets two doses of a smallpox virus genetically engineered to carry the same three HIV genes. The smallpox component of the vaccine makes it unique. The virus, called the modified Ankara virus or MVA, cannot replicate in humans and cannot cause disease. It was used in the waning days of the successful global smallpox eradication program to safely vaccinate some 120,000 people in Germany. A side benefit of the GeoVax vaccine is that recipients will become immune to smallpox, should that virus return via bioterror attack or lab accident... ...Two similar vaccines -- using adenovirus [upper respiratory infections, usually] instead of smallpox virus -- are further along than the GeoVax vaccine..." Debbi Good News Badly Needed Maru ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
