Vaccine failure exposes Aussies to AIDS risk

[freelance]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/08/2085118.htm

Now, about that flu shot....

[Wendi]

I'm more concerned about the fact that they thought combining HIV with the common cold was a good idea :eek:

[Corydoras]

These were volunteers. They gave informed consent that anything at all could happen from that vaccine. Experimental vaccines don't always work as planned-- that's why they're experimental.

Combining portions of viruses with the common cold virus is a common way to get the immune system activated. Look up in Google the words adenovirus and vaccine together.

After the last polio epidemic among Amish, most Amish started getting vaccinated, that's how much of a scourge polio was to their community. They knew how bad it is. If vaccination rates keep dropping, widespread polio might reappear in North America, a terrifying thought.