There could be an Aids vaccine in four years

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'There could be an Aids vaccine in four years,' says Nobel Prize

winner By Daily Mail Reporter on 06th October 2008

A French scientist awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering the Aids

virus has predicted there would be a 'therapeutic vaccine' for the

disease within four years.

Luc Montagnier and his team discovered HIV at the French Pasteur

Institute in Paris 25 years ago, and have been awarded the prestigious

prize along with other scientists who worked on discovering the root

of the virus.

Montagnier, 76, said a treatment could be possible in the future with

a 'therapeutic' rather than preventive vaccine for which results might

be published in three or four years if financial backing is forthcoming.

'I think it will be possible with a therapeutic vaccine rather than

preventative vaccinations. We would give it to people who are already

infected.

A therapeutic vaccine prevents disease from flourishing after it has

taken hold.

The Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute praised their

work, saying: 'The discovery was one prerequisite for the current

understanding of the biology of the disease and its antiretroviral

treatment.'...

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