Strain of HIV virus found in monkeys may be cleared by vaccine
A research team at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute at Oregon Health and Science University looked at an aggressive form of virus called SIVmac239, which is up to 100 times more deadly than HIV.
Infected monkeys usually die within two years, but in some inoculated primates the virus did not take hold.
The study published in the science journal Nature showed that of 16 monkeys exposed to the virus who were injected with a vaccine, nine appeared to be able to clear their body of the disease.
Prof Louis Picker, from the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute at Oregon Health and Science University, said: “It’s always tough to claim eradication – there could always be a cell which we didn’t analyse that has the virus in it. But for the most part, with very stringent criteria… there was no virus left in the body of these monkeys.”
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2013/09/12/strain-of-hiv-virus-found-in-monkeys-is-cleared-by-vaccine/
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A step in the right direction.
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It's encouraging to me, because I'm old enough to remember a time when AIDS hadn't even had a name yet, I mean, I remember the wild 70's. And now, researchers have apparently found a substance that destroys the simian-related pathogen completely, at least in some subjects.
So much progress has been made in such a short time - not short enough to save the friends I've lost along the way, but you have to continue holding on to hope, for those who are infected today, their families and loved ones, and for humanity in general. 
K&R
