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Monday, September 24, 2007

Stage Two

In Trenton, New Jersey an AIDS vaccine experiment went terribly wrong, sending volunteers home with HIV instead of preventing them from ever having it. Merck & Co have experienced a major setback in finding a cure/prevention from AIDS. Their experiment was the farthest experiment to go this far, this is a shocking turnout considering this experiment was closely watched by experts in the field. According to the Associated Press it has been reported that 24 volunteers out of 741 received HIV after having received the vaccine that is supposed to prevent HIV. Another trial was done and once again 21 out of 762 people were diagnosed with HIV. Merck isn’t giving up hope yet, they are still trying desperately to find a cure and a way to prevent this deadly disease.
This article is worth reading because it’s very interesting that there are cures trying to be found for this deadly disease. I wish this experiment could’ve been conducted 10 years ago so that my family didn’t have to suffer the loss of loved ones.
Here is the link to the original article:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/health/5154789.html

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

1st assignment

This is going to be my blog for tx govt class