12-11-2011, 08:35 PM
Smallpox as mentioned above was never cured, but wiped out with a vaccine.
Hepatitis is still deadly, a friend of mine lost her brother in Argentina to it, and those who are rid of the disease are analogous to AIDS patients whose virus levels are undetectable do to the use of antiretroviral / protease inhibitor cocktails.
As for an HIV vaccine, this will be a hard sell as it will probably require that a weakened strain of the HIV virus itself be injected into your body. Vaccines like this might cause a small percentage to actually get the HIV virus until refined and even then a small number of people may develop AIDS-like immunity problems.
I'm not trying to be pessimistic, just stating the facts as I know them.
Hepatitis is still deadly, a friend of mine lost her brother in Argentina to it, and those who are rid of the disease are analogous to AIDS patients whose virus levels are undetectable do to the use of antiretroviral / protease inhibitor cocktails.
As for an HIV vaccine, this will be a hard sell as it will probably require that a weakened strain of the HIV virus itself be injected into your body. Vaccines like this might cause a small percentage to actually get the HIV virus until refined and even then a small number of people may develop AIDS-like immunity problems.
I'm not trying to be pessimistic, just stating the facts as I know them.
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