the virus that we selected was a virus called cytomegalovirus which is actually a virus frome a different family of virus altogether but it's one that most people in the world are infected with but it's unique in that you can re-infect these people with a virus that now has within its genes HIV genes and then the body would make immunereponses to those HIV genes he said
the HIV genes that would be placed in the harmless virus he said would not cause disease
when they're introduced into the vaccinee the immune response recognizes these HIV bits as if they're part of CMV and raises immune reponse to it"he said
that's the plan anyway the difficult part is making aversion of the vaccine that's safe and effective forhumans that requires an approved vaccine candidate and years of clinical trials
meanwhile in thailand a follow-up study is getting underway ofthe RV144 vaccine candidate several years ago a study showed that it did indeed provide some measure of protection against HIV but not enough being only 31 percent effective a clinical study called RV 305 will use the same vaccine components as 144 but will attempt to boost and extend the immune response through antibodies