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Re:Genetically Modified HIV Vaccine Approved – Human Tests t... by rosser on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @04:39PM (#3379279)
Disagree. People are pretty used to the notion of getting a new flu vaccine every year. Even if some hypothetical HIV vaccine required semi-annual doses, people would line up around the block for it.
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Re:Genetically Modified HIV Vaccine Approved – Human Tests t... by rickyconnolly on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @04:48PM (#3379305)
Seasonal flu vaccaines are possible because the FDA has well established procedures for giving fast-track approval for this particular catagory of drugs. Normall it takes many years to gain approval for a new drug, or even an iteration of an existing drug. In addition, new HIV strains do not arrive in predictable yearly 'waves' like influenza does, new strains arise randomly within the infected population.
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