Posted on 05/25/2003 12:14:03 PM PDT by riri
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:40:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Back in 1984, Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler announced a vaccine for AIDS "will be ready for testing within two years." Today there's no AIDS vaccine approval in sight. Now with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) it's the same silliness. But the new tools of biotechnology do bring hope of much faster vaccine development.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
But it's even harder to imagine that we'll come up with a quick vaccine when we can't even come up with a quick test to determine whether the virus is present.
Maybe something can be done quicker from the antibody angle, although that may be a pipe dream, too.
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