Nobel prize winner says there could be AIDS vaccine soon
2008-10-10 04:52:08 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Health News Top Stories News)
Detroit, Michigan (CaymanMama.com) — There is good news for AIDS patients according to a recent article by the UK’s The Daily Mail.
According to the report, the Nobel prize-winning French scientist who won recognition for discovering the dreaded AIDS virus has shed new light on a “therapeutic vaccine” that would be used to fight the virus to be available within the next four years.
Luc Montagnier, 76, and his team uncovered HIV some 25 years ago at the French Pasteur Institute and have been awarded with esteemed Nobel prize in addition to other scientists who assisted with the discovery of the root of the AIDS virus.
Montagnier remains positive that an AIDS treatment could be possible in the near future with a “‘therapeutic’ rather than preventive vaccine for which results might be published in three or four years if financial backing is forthcoming.”
He continued, “I think it will be possible with a therapeutic vaccine rather than preventative vaccinations. We would give it to people who are already infected.”
A therapeutic vaccine is a preventive version of a vaccine which dissuades the disease from flourishing after it has taken hold in the body.
The Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute praised their work by recognizing that the discovery was necessary to understanding AIDS and the treatments it requires. Traditionally, the Nobel prize for medicine is the first of the award to be handed out each year.
“The prizes for achievement in science, literature and peace were first awarded in 1901 in accordance with the will of dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel.”
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