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10-17-2007, 02:50 PM
The search for an effective vaccine against the AIDS virus will continue, but the latest STEP trial, a Phase III trial, has revealed that the current Adenovirus 05 is not effective. Seventy of the 3,000 volunteers worldwide have become infected with HIV. Merck & Co, the sponsors of the trials, has suspended the drug trials. Jaycy Donastorg, Merck's principal researcher for the drug trials in the Dominican Republic, told Diario Libre reporters that none of the 78 Dominicans who took part in the trial had contracted the disease. She also mentioned that the study included volunteers whose sexual conduct exposed them to a greater risk of infection. While there will be no new vaccinations, according to Donastorg, the study will continue to monitor the volunteers. So far, over 21 years, more than 30 vaccines have been tried against the HIV virus.
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