Vaccine Failure Is Setback in AIDS Fight

Courtesy washingtonpost.com - Health  Thu, 03/20/2008 - 23:00

The two-decade search for an AIDS vaccine is in crisis after two field tests of the most promising contender not only did not protect people from the virus but may actually have put them at increased risk of becoming infected.


 

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