Tribunnews.com Correspondent Report, Richard Susilo from Japan
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, TOKYO – Researcher Japan claimed to have succeeded in eliminating the virus that caused AIDS, results of monkeys inoculation with a vaccine under development.
National Institute Japan, the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, said this was a discovery that would lead to a complete cure for AIDS.
Disease AIDS is a disease that causes various complications due to weakened immunity, and Japan more than 20,000 people have been reported infected HIV reason AIDS.
The national research institute, the National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, inoculated monkeys called cynomolgus monkeys with a vaccine under development, and then introduced a type HIV artificially into the body and confirm its progress.
As a result, four of the seven animals were infected once, but after that the virus was not detected.
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The lab believes that the vaccine has removed the virus from the monkeys’ bodies due to improved immune function, and hopes to start clinical trials in humans within five years.
“It is hoped that the development of therapeutic drugs and vaccines will advance with discoveries that will lead to a complete cure AIDS, which is difficult to do until now,” said Yasuhiro Yasutomi, Direktur National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutritrion, National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (NIBIOHN), Senin (8/11/2021).
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