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Per the UPI, word is filtering out of the scientific press that a trio of pathologists led by Dr. Sudhir Paul at the University of Texas Medical School here in Houston has pinpointed the Achilles Heel of the virus that causes AIDS.
The vulnerable spot is hidden in a protein essential for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, to attach to host cells, the university said in a release.
An HIV vaccine doesn't exist because HIV is a mutating virus.
"Unlike the changeable regions of its envelope, HIV needs at least one region that must remain constant to attach to cells. If this region changes, HIV cannot infect cells," said Paul, a pathology professor at the UT Medical School.
"The next step is to confirm our theory in human clinical trials."
Originally posted by bismarcksea
WHY is everyone so concerned with Africa?
It has been a cesspool and money pit every since the Europeans pulled out. While a cure for aids would be AWSOME, it will not even come close to solving the issues on that continent.
That's good somebody is actually trying to bring the cure forward being we had it for years, but the dark scientists down in the basements won't tell you that.
1. World Health Organization (WHO). Polio eradication: now more than ever, stop polio forever. Available at: www.who.int... Accessed March 22, 2005. 2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Progress toward global eradication of poliomyelitis, January 2003 – April 2004.MMWR. 2004;52:532-535.
- (from WHO) Since the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the number of polio cases worldwide has decreased from 350,000 cases in 1988 to 784 cases in 2003