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Unfortunate news in the search for an AIDS vaccine. More people who got the Merck experimental AIDS vaccine contracted HIV than those who got the placebo/dummy shot. So did the vaccine make them MORE likely to contract HIV? Or was it their high-risk predisposition?
Read the full article from AP HERE.
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So you know that this was phase 2 right? And that in the earlier trial the vaccine worked, in a smaller group.
Posted by: anonymous1 | October 27, 2007 at 01:23 AM