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"New data on an experimental AIDS vaccine that failed to work shows volunteers who got the shots were far more likely to get infected with the virus through sex or other risky behavior than those who got dummy shots."

...wait--what??

http://tinyurl.com/2gjay9

11/13/2007 3:21:50 PM

so that didn't work at all then.

11/13/2007 3:23:32 PM

oops

11/13/2007 3:23:54 PM

i'd hate to be a tester for that one.

11/13/2007 3:25:30 PM

damn!

11/13/2007 3:26:11 PM

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"Some 3,000 people, mostly gay men and female sex workers, had volunteered to get the experimental vaccine or dummy shots. All were warned to protect themselves from AIDS exposure. At the time the study was halted in September, Merck said 24 of 741 volunteers who got the vaccine in one segment of testing later developed HIV; 21 of 762 participants who got dummy shots also were infected."

11/13/2007 3:30:29 PM

what kind of person volunteers for this shit?

11/13/2007 3:31:19 PM

that's horrible

they figured they had a vaccine and could fuck whoever they wanted!

11/13/2007 3:31:38 PM

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"female sex workers"

wat?

11/13/2007 3:34:44 PM

^^

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"All were warned to protect themselves from AIDS exposure."

^ probly the PC term for prostitutes... or ho's as you know them...

[Edited on November 13, 2007 at 3:36 PM. Reason : sdf]

11/13/2007 3:35:18 PM

24/741 is "far more likely" than 21/762?

11/13/2007 3:38:04 PM

a sex worker is a prostitute. duh!

11/13/2007 3:39:44 PM

either way - the subjects were idiots... they really thought they were vaccinated! I know they were told to NOT expose themselves to AIDS - but obviously they didn't listen!

11/13/2007 3:40:09 PM

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"to date, 49 of 914 vaccinated men became infected with HIV, compared with 33 of the 922 men who got dummy shots"

11/13/2007 3:40:47 PM

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"Only one woman and a small number of heterosexual men were infected."

gay guys were mostly the ones who were infected.

11/13/2007 3:44:05 PM

nvm

[Edited on November 13, 2007 at 3:50 PM. Reason : haha, that's too vulgar, this R serious thread]

11/13/2007 3:45:17 PM