That's all we are to these mad doctors!
"In Tests, AIDS Vaccine Seemed to Increase Risk" by LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN and ANDREW POLLACK
In a puzzling and potentially troubling development, an AIDS vaccine tested in a closely watched trial might have increased the risk among vaccine recipients of becoming infected with H.I.V., researchers reported yesterday at a scientific meeting in Seattle.
The increased risk was principally among a group of people who had pre-existing levels of immunity to a common cold virus known as adenovirus type 5, which was modified to become a critical part of the vaccine.
Injecting viruses into you! That's what they are doing!
Making you sicker!
In late September, Merck unexpectedly halted the trial of its experimental H.I.V. vaccine because it failed in its two main objectives, to prevent infection and to lower the amount of H.I.V. in the blood among those who became infected.
The vaccine was being tested among 3,000 volunteers at high risk of developing AIDS in nine countries, including those at immunization centers organized by the National Institutes of Health in the United States.
World wide testing, huh? I don't like it!
Findings could determine the underlying biological mechanism responsible for the vaccine’s failure. It will take months to years for such tests to be completed, Dr. Keith Gottesdiener, a Merck vice president, said in an interview.
Yup, it always takes years for them to figure out how they poisoned us all!
The new reports create even more scientific confusion about how to develop a vaccine to stop the global H.I.V. pandemic, which has infected an estimated 39 million people and killed 25 million more.
The findings raise questions about whether adenovirus can ever be used as a crucial ingredient in an AIDS vaccine and whether new tacks will be needed. Use of a modified virus as a vector to deliver H.I.V. genes is a new and evolving way to make an AIDS vaccine. The Merck vaccine included three synthetic H.I.V. genes.
Injecting H.I.V. genes into them? WTF?!
Meeting participants will continue discussions today about whether the trial leaders should continue to observe the participants without telling them whether they received the vaccine or a placebo and the results of their exposure to the cold virus before the study began. A recommendation will be made in about 10 days, Dr. Gottesdiener said.
Dr. Larry Corey of the University of Washington, who led the investigators, in an interview:
“We did a beautiful experiment, but it definitely was a disappointment.”
Oooooooooh, all an EXPERIMENT, huh?
Always prodding and poking!
Well, keep your fucking poisonous potions away from me!
