Researchers at the NIH Vaccine Research Center has found a way that and AIDS vaccine can really be available to AIDS patients real soon. The study revealed that the blood of an HIV infected person is capable of producing two powerful antibodies that can neutralize up to 91% of the HIV virus strains. Peter D. Kwong released an official statement that “We have proof that and AIDS vaccine is on the way…” Dr. Kwong is the chief of Structural Biology at the NIH Center.

It’s been a few decades since doctors and scientists started to study and research for a cure if not a cure, a vaccine for the deadly AIDS virus. They’re experimenting this and that, what they didn’t know is that the human body itself can produce its own antibodies that can protect itself from the virus.

According to Dr. Kwong’s team, it may take a while before they can produce the vaccine. But the fact that they found out how to produce a vaccine, that’s a big breakthrough! Can you imagine a HIV patient waiting for this vaccine, what he doesn’t know is that the vaccine is in his system already. Some of you may wonder, how come the antibodies doesn’t work right before the virus multiplies?

Dr. Kwong informed: “The problem is that the antibodies appear naturally only long after HIV has established a death grip on the body. Because the virus replicates often and mutates quickly, people don’t just carry a single strain of HIV — their blood swarms with a vast number of HIV “quasi-species.” By the time a person develops neutralizing antibodies, the virus has had time to evolve escape variants.” The solution then is to have yourselves vaccinated once the vaccine is out in the market. All we have to do is wait.

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