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Article: Virus on the run. (AIDS vaccine research) (Science & Society)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- November 19, 1990
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Polio raged for 40 years before Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin produced the two vaccines that brought it under control in the late 1950s. The measles and hepatitis B vaccines likewise took decades to develop and test. And there is still no inoculation against chicken pox, the common cold or the scourge of malaria. Vaccines, simple in theory, are not easy to develop or test.
Measured against the need, development of a vaccine against AIDS may seem especially, and painfully slow. But considering that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was not even identified until 1985, work on a vaccine against it is moving along at a remarkable clip. Researchers are much further ...