Magic was born in the wrong era

[apalisoc_9]

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/geekquinox/western-university-researchers-report-success-hiv-vaccine-safety-204333294.html

Canadian University discovers vaccine for HIV

[Spursfan092120]

Getting close to a cure too, tho...tbh

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/03/2-men-cured-of-hiv-lymphoma-stem-cell-transplant_n_3540295.html

[Chief Brody]

I'd still be a little sketched out if it was a live attenuated vaccine, especially since HIV has uncanny variable incubation periods. Maybe that was addressed in the article though, too lazy to read it tonight.

[Bynumite]

This is Christmas in the summertime for Jim, he's about to give up the booty to half of San Antonio.

[Bynumite]

But seriously, what's more profitable for pharmaceutical companies, a cure or the shit load of medication that helps keep the virus under control? Not the cure for sure.

[Rogue]

no surprise it's a canadian university that first discorvers the cure to HIV, given the high percentage of gay people in that country. Demand is the strongest driving force imho.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

But seriously, what's more profitable for pharmaceutical companies, a cure or the shit load of medication that helps keep the virus under control? Not the cure for sure.

It's all about new patents and a vaccine would be administered to an entire population and get play with UNICEF and the like for international distribution. Whoever holds the patent for the vaccine will become multi, multi billionaires overnight.