I’m in love!
The FDA recently approved human trials for a potential vaccine for HIV. A research team in Canada will conduct clinical trials of the vaccine on humans after trials showed no side effects in rats and monkeys.
The research team is working with a Korean pharmaceutical company with patents in the U.S. If the vaccine is successful, it could be marketed in the U.S.
The possible vaccine, in the works since 1987, is actually a dead HIV virus infected into cells. “So we infect the cells with a virus and then the infected cells will produce lots of virus and we can collect them, purify them and then inactivate them,” Kang said in a video posted on the University of Western Ontario’s YouTube channel.
The first human trial will utilize 40 HIV-positive patients to test the safety of the possible cure. The human trial’s second phase will include 600 HIV-negative people considered high-risk for catching the disease — the third phase bumps that number to 6,000.This is crazy! Regardless of if this vaccine works or not this is a huge step for medicine and a great advance in the war against HIV.








