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NEWS > HEALTH > HIV REDUCED TO LITTLE MORE THAN A MINOR SKIN INFECTION
HIV REDUCED TO LITTLE MORE THAN A MINOR SKIN INFECTION
October 1 2011
Madrid, Spain – Since it first appeared in the 1980’s HIV has become the stuff of nightmares. Though hardly the biggest killer in the world, HIV has become the grand villain of our times, a beast that lurks in every corner waiting to strike. That is no doubt due in large part to the primary form of transmission, sex, our most basic and primal instinct.
Add to that the durability of the disease and the 100 per cent mortality rate and you have a perfect cocktail for fear, no matter how irrational it may be. However, HIV has been under constant attack because of that high profile and in many place in the West it has been reduced to little more than a chronic ailment. Now researchers in Spain believe they have a vaccine breakthrough that will reduce the potency of the virus even more, reducing it to little more than a skin irritation or a minor rash, leaving people free to have as much unprotected sex as they want and to reduce waste by sharing needles once again.
“It is like showing a picture of the HIV so that it is able to recognise it if it sees it again in the future. Our body is full of lymphocytes, each of them programmed to fight against a different pathogen,” Professor Mariano Esteban said of the research. “Training is needed when it involves a pathogen, like the HIV one, which cannot be naturally defeated. It could become a minor chronic infection.”
The vaccine is still in the early stages of trials but if successful will be mass produced and distributed worldwide, presumably to wealthy people.
“We have had this promise before, this promise of an HIV vaccine, and it has really gone nowhere. That isn’t the fault of the researchers, it is because HIV is a tricky disease, it is very clever and so defeating it has been extremely difficult. It’s a tough nut to crack,” said Scrape TV Health analyst Rebecca Phelps. “It’s not that people aren’t trying or that they are dragging their feet because they know that once the disease is cured their funding will run out. It’s just a tough disease to beat. Certainly a lot of labs will suffer if a cure is found but I doubt sincerely that anyone would ignore a breakthrough for those reasons.”
HIV and AIDS have become the most widely financed diseases in the world despite impacting a relatively small segment of the population.
“I mean entire labs would just shut down and people would be out of work. Sure, 
whoever found the cure would likely win the Nobel but the lab would lose financing. Sure you get a lot of money from the Nobel people but spread it amongst the whole team and it’s suddenly not as much. It’s much better to have a stable job, particularly in this economy,” continued Phelps. “That said, I’m sure people are working diligently to make this happen. We’ll have to wait and see the results of this Spanish research and while I’m hopeful, I’m also sceptical. I mean what have the Spanish done for us lately and, frankly, they need the money in that country as much as anyone. We will see but I have serious doubts.”
The researchers were also involved in creating a very powerful topical antibiotic popular throughout the country.
Lauren Hebert, Health Correspondent
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