There could be an Aids vaccine in four years

[Roon]

A French scientist awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering the Aids virus has predicted there would be a 'therapeutic vaccine' for the disease within four years.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1070471/There-Aids-vaccine-years-says-Nobel-Prize-winner.html

[AngryAmish]

1. No there won't

That is my prediction.

[Roon]

2. .

:-(

[LeftishBrit]

3. I hope so - but the Daily Mail tends to sensationalize things

More likely, he means that there may be a therapeutic vaccine *in the beginning of testing and development* in four years' time - and then, even if the process goes without a hitch, there might be quite a few years of animal testing and in vitro testing before even the first clinical trials with humans.

[Avalux]

4. I do not think a vaccine is possible from what I know.

I was involved in a very large vaccine trial 20 YEARS ago that was unsuccessful. The problem is the same as it was then - a retrovirus with an isurmountable number of mutations.

While I hope he's correct, I am very pessimistic about his prediction.