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More slapstick comedy from Geneva.

After bizillions of dollars, millions of deaths and 
almost two decades of non-stop junk science focused
on reverse-engineering theories from drug "treatments" ...
and this is what they send back home:

     �AIDS vaccine suffered a serious setback Thursday when 
      tests in adult monkeys showed it may actually cause 
      the disease it was meant to prevent...�

Alas, Ruprecht's Theorum:

   �There is a mini-Darwinian experiment going on in every single 
    vaccinated animal,� she said. �In the end, we have disease.�

Oops! 

Could it be possible that HIV actually arose
from the vaccination experiments for polio vaccines 
in the Congo more than 3 decades ago?

Why, yes Virginia, I suppose the Congo would be
a fine place for modern science.

fred
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                AIDS Vaccine Suffers Big Setback
                     By DANIEL Q. HANEY

.c The Associated Press 

GENEVA (AP) - A weakened virus that many consider the best hope 
for an AIDS vaccine suffered a serious setback Thursday when 
tests in adult monkeys showed it may actually cause the disease 
it was meant to prevent. 

The approach - what scientists call a live, attenuated vaccine 
- initially protects monkeys from getting infected with the 
simian version of HIV. 

However, the new work shows that over time, the weakened virus 
can mutate into a lethal form that causes the disease it was 
meant to prevent. 

�To me, this fortifies that we are not ready to go into humans 
with a live attenuated vaccine,�said Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of 
the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. 

Dr. Robert Gallo of the University of Maryland said that if the 
live attenuated approach fails, it means AIDS vaccine 
development is no further ahead than it was in 1984, when 
little was known about the epidemic�s cause. 

�We have no guarantee that we will ever have a vaccine,� he 
said. 

Creating an AIDS vaccine is a top priority of researchers but 
also an extraordinarily difficult task because the AIDS virus 
attacks parts of the immune system that are ordinarily called 
into action by effective vaccines. 

One idea is to give people a weakened version of HIV - one that 
would set up a harmless low-grade infection but keep immune 
defenses on high alert against the real thing. People who carry 
genetically crippled HIV that arose through random mutations do 
not seem to get sick. 

Because of the obvious hazards of testing even a weakened AIDS 
virus on people, scientists at the New England Regional Primate 
Center in Southboro, Mass., created a mirror version using the 
closely related simian immune deficiency virus, SIV. 

When first tested on macaque monkeys, they found that the 
vaccine seemed to completely protect them from what should have 
been lethal doses of the full-strength virus. 

However, in 1995, Dr. Ruth Ruprecht of Dana Farber Cancer 
Institute in Boston found that the weakened virus eventually 
triggered the simian version of AIDS when given to baby 
monkeys. 

At the 12th World AIDS Conference, Ruprecht reported her new 
research shows that in time, the vaccine also causes AIDS in 
adult monkeys. 

�What we saw in infants is a fast-forward version of what could 
happen in adults with an attenuated vaccine,�she said. 

The version of the vaccine she tested was weakened by deleting 
parts of three genes that were thought necessary for it to 
cause illness. 

Los Angeles AIDS specialist Charles Farthing, who wants to test 
a live attenuated HIV vaccine in people, called Ruprecht�s 
latest discovery �more concerning� than her earlier work in 
infants. Still, he said, monkey AIDS is an even more virulent 
disease than human AIDS, and the human vaccine would be 
weakened even more than the monkey version she tested. 

�Looking at SIV in monkeys gives you a misleading impression of 
what would happen in human beings,� he said. �This is not 
safety data for humans.�

Ruprecht vaccinated 15 adult monkeys over the past three to 
five years. One has died of AIDS. Three others have high levels 
of the HIV virus in their blood. 

Among nine infant monkeys vaccinated, six have developed AIDS 
and five of them are dead. The other three have pre-AIDS 
abnormalities. 

She said the weakened virus mutates so rapidly that strains 
eventually emerge that are able to thrive. 

�There is a mini-Darwinian experiment going on in every single 
vaccinated animal,� she said. �In the end, we have disease.�