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Originally Posted by Thermopyle
Just heard on swedish new that swedish doctors are going to start trying out a vaccination against HIV/AIDS on healty people. My guess is that HIV is not going to be a leathal deases for long. The question is if they can stop the epidemi in africa and other places?
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I've been studying HIV/AIDS in school right now, and I am sorry to say this is probably not the case. The problem with HIV is, as mo42 said, it mutates really fast. The HIV virus is similar to the common cold in this aspect. This is the same reason people have worked for years and years and never been able to come up with a cure for the common cold. Vaccines as we know them might not be capable of 'training' your immune system as they do to fight off diseases beacause the HIV virus just changes its outer coat to fast and to easily.