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HIV NEWS: ‘Vaccine’ Inactivates All Strains; Prevents Infection

A promising HIV ‘vaccine’ has gotten the researchers excited after largely successful test on monkeys.

World Aids Day, December 1

Researchers have developed a protein-based treatment which they hhave tested in monkeys. The animals were exposed to the pathogens of the simian version of HIV in humans, SHIV even multiple times and had no infection.

So you know that HIV hijacks your CD4s to create more copies of itself then  spreading throughout your immune system. Well this protein (eCD4-Ig) prevents that from happening by binding two…  wait let’s simplify this. It stops it from binding to your CD4s in the first place. The eCD4-Ig binds itself to the pathogen so the HIV virus from getting to your CD4s. It’s as if the virus is essentially being conned.

Because of the rate at which HIV mutates it has not been possible before to create a vaccine using traditional means. That means get the body to create antibodies against the pathogen hen move from there.

It is not clear whether this will be successful s

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