VACCINES work simply by producing antibodies, right? Well, probably not. And
this misconception coupled with basic ignorance of how they do work is stalling
the urgent quest for an AIDS vaccine, claim leading HIV researchers. They say no
one has bothered to find out how highly successful vaccines like polio, measles
and hepatitis B actually protect people from disease.
“I’m amazed by the amount of basic science we don’t know,” Philippe
Kourilsky, director of the Paris-based Pasteur Institute, told the meeting:
“We’ve had many successful vaccines over the past decades but we’ve missed a
chance to see how these vaccines…
