Article: Denver Public Health Agency Tests Early AIDS Vaccine.

By Karen Auge, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 12--Sitting on an exam table, Philip Osteen rolled up his sleeve and grimaced ever so slightly as nurse Caren Davis injected him with the AIDS virus.

Osteen is not crazy and he's not suicidal. He's more a soldier in the fight to vanquish the disease.

Besides, the needle that went into Osteen's arm delivered only a minute bit of HIV protein, which had been spliced onto another, less potent, crippled virus. There is not enough HIV virus in the serum to make Osteen sick, but enough, researchers hope, to stimulate his immune system so that it learns to recognize HIV and ...

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