The fog around the largest AIDS
vaccine study ever conducted began to lift today, as Thai and U.S. researchers for the first time publicly presented a detailed analysis of their data to over 1000 scientists gathered here at an annual meeting.
Not exact matches
But if we're
ever going to rid ourselves of the disease, we need to create smarter and more cost - effective
vaccines,» says Blaine Pfeifer, PhD, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University at Buffalo's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the
study's co-lead author.
No clinical
studies were
ever done to find out how many years the protection from the
vaccine lasted.
It might seem like a simple question, but no
vaccine manufacturer or government agency has
ever attempted to run the
studies that would be required to answer that question.
We don't know the efficacy of Red Rocks Biologicals Crotalus Atrox Toxoid (rattlesnake
vaccine) because no one has, or
ever is, going to do controlled
studies, where they inject dogs with snake venom and compare vaccinated dogs to unvaccinated dogs, for obvious humane reasons.