Wednesday, July 25, 2012

AIDS vaccine still a long way off: expert

AIDS vaccine still a long way off: expert


A Canberra vaccine expert says the world is no closer to developing a vaccine for AIDS.

Ian Ramshaw from the Australian National University's John Curtin School of Medical Research will be chairing a session at the Sir Mark Oliphant vaccine conference that opens in Canberra today.

Experts from around the world will speak at the conference on new ways to fight deadly diseases.

Professor Ramshaw says the AIDS vaccines that have been developed have been failures.

"It's such a clever virus, it really does avoid being recognised by the immune system.

"The immune system that protects us against polio, influenza etc, those are the easy vaccines to make, this is so difficult that it's going to be a long time before we come up with the right concoction."

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