Article: VACCINE SEEN PROMISING IN EARLY STAGES OF AIDS

Providing a hopeful glimmer for the estimated 1.5 million Americans infected with the AIDS virus, a US Army research team last night said that an experimental vaccine boosts immune function of patients in the early stages of the disease.

Although the evidence is preliminary, it is considered strong enough to justify the first widespread tests of an experimental AIDS vaccine among patients in the early stages of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, which causes the disease.

The Army's Walter Reed Institute of Research plans to embark on wider tests of the vaccine in January among patients in the early stages of AIDS virus infection, according to the vaccine's ...

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