HEALTH NEWS: Breakthrough!!! as Vaccine cures HIV-like virus in monkeys

A vaccine has successfully cleared the monkey version of HIV from the bloodstreams of infected animals, leading scientists to believe they may be able to replicate the effect for humans with HIV.



"To date, HIV infection has only been cured in a very small number of highly-publicized but unusual clinical cases in which HIV-infected individuals were treated with anti-viral medicines very early after the onset of infection or received a stem cell transplant to combat cancer,"



Accorfing to a press release by Dr. Louis Picker, associate director of the Oregon Health and Science University Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute, he said "This latest research suggests that certain immune responses elicited by a new vaccine may also have the ability to completely remove HIV from the body."



The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services reports that about 1.2 million people in the U.S. are living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS. One in five people living with HIV are not aware that they are infected.



The researchers in the latest monkey study want to try the vaccine method on humans with HIV, but acknowledge that they still have to make sure it is safe. They hope the first human clinical trials can start within two years.



NOTE: There have been some cases of humans who were cured of HIV(just a few) through stem cell transplantation from individuals who had a mutation called Delta 32 which makes them resistant to HIV.... In a case, the Virus was later found but was said to be dead and unable to replicate.



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