First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful

First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful 554

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday August 20, 2006 @03:57PM from the baby-steps dept.

rbarreira writes "Xinhua online is reporting on the success of the first trial phase of an AIDS vaccine, which was started on March 2005. From the article: '"Forty-nine healthy people who received the injection showed no severe adverse reactions after 180 days, proving the vaccine was safe," said Zhang Wei, head of the pharmaceutical registration department of the SFDA. "The recipients appeared immune to the HIV-1 virus 15 days after the injection, indicating the vaccine worked well in stimulating the body's immunity," he told the press conference.' After the results are further analyzed, 800 more voluntaries may be needed for the second and third phases of the vaccine's trial."

First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful

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In Soviet China... (Score:2, Funny)

by Odiumjunkie ( 926074 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @04:01PM (#15945021) Journal

2000 yuan AIDS you!

pool's closed (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @04:01PM (#15945022)

If this goes well we won't have to close the pools.

Re:49 people + 180 days = proof?? (Score:3, Funny)

by jeremymiles ( 725644 ) * writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @04:09PM (#15945051) Homepage Journal

Yeah, safe as in "Forty nine healthy people who went up in a space shuttle came back home fine, which proves it's safe".

Re:49? (Score:5, Funny)

by debilo ( 612116 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @04:12PM (#15945064)

Really, we're supposed to believe the study had exactly 49 participants? Not 50, or 150?

Pssst, there were 150 participants, but 101 of them died.

First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful (Score:5, Funny)

by McGiraf ( 196030 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @04:13PM (#15945069)

Fuck!

Re:49 people + 180 days = proof?? (Score:3, Funny)

by debilo ( 612116 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @04:21PM (#15945104)

I think that even with birth defects a cure for AIDS would be useful.

Plus, for all we know, most males lack a uterus.

Re:49? (Score:2, Funny)

by nih ( 411096 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @04:36PM (#15945158)

they are not dead, they are pining for the fjords

Re:49 people + 180 days = proof?? (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @04:41PM (#15945167)

Plus, how do they test immunity?
The subjects engage in sex! Lots of sex! With random people. For science of course.

Re:49? = 7 * 7 (Score:3, Funny)

by NotQuiteReal ( 608241 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @04:47PM (#15945195) Journal

7 is a lucky number, just to be super lucky, they used 7 * 7!
Hmmm, this was China... I think 8 is the lucky number there. Never mind.

Well duh this IS Slashdot... (Score:4, Funny)

by Chaffar ( 670874 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @04:50PM (#15945205)

I hate to be a dink, but we've had a way to completely control this infection for about 20 years now; it's called abstinence
No need to preach abstinence here; we at Slashdot have been abstaining from sex all our lives (not by choice though :)

Re:First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful (Score:5, Funny)

by QRDeNameland ( 873957 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @04:57PM (#15945232)

"I dunno how much AIDS scare y'all, but I got a theory - the day they come out with a cure for AIDS. Guaranteed, one-shot cure. On that day, there's gonna be fucking in the streets, man. It's over! Who're you? C'mere! What's your name, baby? No, it's over, yeah, woo-hoo! Man, if you can't get laid on that day, cut it off."
-- Bill Hicks

Re:49 people + 180 days = proof?? (Score:4, Funny)

by RsG ( 809189 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @05:00PM (#15945239)

most males lack a uterus.
And the rest got theirs on ebay?

Re:First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful (Score:4, Funny)

by McGiraf ( 196030 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @05:09PM (#15945266)

That will be a great day for herpes, siphylis, crabs, pregnancies, clamedia ....

AYDS (Score:3, Funny)

by porkmusket ( 954006 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @05:17PM (#15945289) Homepage

I was overweight and embarrassed to go anyplace. AYDS [google.com] helped me get back into a size 12.

Mod me off-topic, I don't care. That video is funny shit.

Re:First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful (Score:5, Funny)

by MarkRose ( 820682 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @05:31PM (#15945327) Homepage

That will be a great day for herpes, siphylis, crabs, pregnancies, clamedia ....

I felt a disturbance in the force. It is as if the fantasies of millions of slashdotters were suddenly silenced.

Re:Duck and Cover (Score:2, Funny)

by yndrd1984 ( 730475 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @06:05PM (#15945477)

Becuse all those Africans living on "$1 a day" can afford drugs. Sure...

Let's see if Bill Hicks was right.... (Score:2, Funny)

by rilister ( 316428 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @06:51PM (#15945622)

"I dunno how much AIDS scares y'all, but I got a theory: the day they come out with a cure for AIDS, a guaranteed one-shot cure, on that day there's gonna be fucking in the streets, man."

should be fun.

(ps. I know this is a vaccine, not a cure, but it kinda amounts to the same thing)

That time of the year again (Score:3, Funny)

by Aqua OS X ( 458522 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @10:31PM (#15946224)

Well, it's that time of the year again. We haven't had an AIDS cure post in a few months.

Re:49 people + 180 days = proof?? (Score:2, Funny)

by goodie3shoes ( 573521 ) writes: on Sunday August 20, 2006 @11:55PM (#15946464)

"Also, I think that the slashdotting community would probably not be adverse to you writing down some of your romantic exploits. In fact that's probably what the slashdot's journal was made for: Hot lesbian love ;-)" Nice going. We finally get a poster that's not a 29-year-old socially-challenged white male living in his parent's basement, and you have to reinforce the "men are pigs" stereotype. Now there's only 3 women that read Slashdot. BTW, you mean "averse" not "adverse".

Re:49 people + 180 days = proof?? (Score:2, Funny)

by saridder ( 103936 ) writes: on Monday August 21, 2006 @01:22AM (#15946692) Homepage

They can't even cure athlete's foot. Forget about curing AIDS.

Re:Umm ... (Score:3, Funny)

by Quiet_Desperation ( 858215 ) writes: on Monday August 21, 2006 @11:46AM (#15949002)

abstinence probably cures acne and cancer as well, and leads to better eyesight and higher salaries
I can personally attest that the last two are not the case. :(

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In Soviet China... (Score:2, Funny)

pool's closed (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:49? = 7 * 7 (Score:3, Funny)

Well duh this IS Slashdot... (Score:4, Funny)

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Re:49 people + 180 days = proof?? (Score:4, Funny)

Re:First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful (Score:4, Funny)

AYDS (Score:3, Funny)

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Re:Duck and Cover (Score:2, Funny)

Let's see if Bill Hicks was right.... (Score:2, Funny)

That time of the year again (Score:3, Funny)

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Re:Umm ... (Score:3, Funny)

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