Horace writes: >Wow, this is interesting. Thank you! This means there is a prospective >cure for aids, at least for some individuals. The cure consists of marrow >replacement using a doner having blood with small pores.
Youch! That's a pretty serious procedure just to vaccinate a person. And that's what you'd get, once the infection occurs it won't help to transplant the marrow. That said, here's a more viable vaccine idea. Find the DNA fragment that encodes for blood cell pore size. Take a virus, and engineer it to inject the new DNA strand for small pore size into the marrow cells. If you do this right, you'd not only vaccinate the person, but everyone else they sleep with whilst the vaccine vector is active. What a great pickup line " Sleep with me beautiful, and you'll be immune from AIDS" Safe sex? How about "AIDS vaccinating sex!". The basic science for what I describe above has already been developed and tested for treating Cystic Fibrosis. I'm sure someone out there is working on something like this right now. The problem, as will perhaps already be apparent to more business minded Vo's, is that vaccine's ( ESPECIALLY the kind I am describing ) are the lowest profit margin pharma that you can sell. That's why we had a gross shortage of flu vaccine last year; no one in the US makes it anymore, or most other vaccines either. It was very funny when, a few months before the shortage, we heard from the Great Father George ( Thanks Chief S. ) that Canadian imported pharmas are BAD cause they're poison, but domestic pharmas are GOOD cause they're uhhhh profitable. Then we find that our one manufacturer ( US company, outsourcing actual production to England ) is producing bad vaccine, so we beg Canada for their surplus vaccine. We've always been at war with Eurasia, what's wrong with you Winston Smith! Double plus ungood! This is why, twenty years after the AIDS virus made itself known, we have no vaccine, but several different manufacturers of erection pills. Which, in conjunction with all the cheap methamphetamine floating around, is fueling the second big wave of AIDS infections. Hey, I'm a practicing capitalist, and even my stomach turns when I think about this stuff. K.
