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Article: VACCINE SEEN PROMISING IN EARLY STAGES OF AIDS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 17, 1989
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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 ...