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Final results were set to be
publicly released in 2008 or later, but an independent monitoring panel conducted a
scheduled review of the vaccine's effectiveness and found that 24 of 741 participants injected with the vaccine had contracted HIV, compared with 21 of 762 given a dummy vaccine, Merck said in a statement last week.