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A Vaccine That May Beat The HIV Virus
This Doctor Invented The HIV Blood Test. Now He Has A Vaccine That May Beat The Virus
The new vaccine has been 15 years in the making.
While many other vaccines target specific strains of HIV, the treatment that the institute has developed takes a different approach.
It attempts to block the virus before it can invade the body's T-cells (a central component of the body's immune system) and mutate,
at which point it becomes invisible to the body's immune system and much harder to treat.
Should it prove successful, this vaccine would offer protection against a large class of viruses collectively known as "HIV-1."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hiv-virus-vaccine-dr-robert-gallo-aids_561d46e4e4b050c6c4a30408
