Promising HIV vaccine passes phase one human trials with 90% success rate

Re:Promising HIV vaccine passes phase one human trials with ... by rdl on Thursday September 29, 2011 @12:20PM (#3053053)

You may be thinking of smallpox, which exists in one or two declared labs (and probably a few more black labs).

Polio is unfortunately still "in the wild" in certain areas (Afghanistan/Pakistan/India, Sub-Saharan Africa), and had a bit of a resurgence lately. The Gates Foundation is putting a lot of effort into finishing up polio eradication.

Relevant TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_aylward_how_we_ll_stop_polio....

One of the main issues is that the polio vaccine requires a cold chain (presently; I think they have a new shelf-stable one); the smallpox vaccine, at least one of them, does not.

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Re:Promising HIV vaccine passes phase one human trials with ... by desigooner on Thursday September 29, 2011 @03:01PM (#3053775)

FYI, there has been only 1 reported case of Polio in India this year (since January). It might be that time when Polio is finally eradicated from India

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/09/polio-in-india-g...

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Re:Promising HIV vaccine passes phase one human trials with ... by briggsbio on Thursday September 29, 2011 @10:43PM (#3055365)

And there have been dozens of cases of wild polio in China and the Philippines this year, and a current outbreak of 84 cases in Pakistan, according to the WHO. http://www.who.int/csr/don/en/index.html

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